From Jen Marie
A great-horned owl shows off her beautiful feathers while preening, with Spanish moss in the background. This is also a great example of why they’re also known as tiger owls, with their orange and black striped feathers.
From Jen Marie
A great-horned owl shows off her beautiful feathers while preening, with Spanish moss in the background. This is also a great example of why they’re also known as tiger owls, with their orange and black striped feathers.
I really like þese uncommon expressions and activities. Like, pictures of grumpy-looking owls are reasonably common, and þat wide-eyed alert expression too, but in þis photo it just looks lazily curious.
I enjoy a lot of these too, after seeing tens of thousands of owl pics I don’t bother to share here. I’m happy there is still so much new stuff for me to see and share with you guys. I will debate if you all will like some of them, like in this one you can’t really see the face and I wonder if it will be interesting either for those of you that know a bit about owls by now or for people just scrolling that don’t regularly hang out here because it doesn’t even so much look like an owl like this, but if I think there’s a reasonable chance you may like it, I share and let you decide.
I mainly skip more gory or gross things like messy prey pics, them tossing their pellets, or taking big poops and such. 😅 I also look at a lot of surgery stuff and poisonings, but I don’t think the majority of you guys want to see that. I find it beneficial, but I don’t think you guys will get from that stuff what I do. If it’s something really unique or something miraculous they’ve already recovered from, I will spoiler tag it for those curious, but I think it would turn off more people or attract a kind of audience I don’t know I’d want. I still like seeing the birds be themselves and having fun best.
Good approach. Maybe we shield ourselves too much, but I don’t know having traumatic images sprinkled randomly in a feed would necessarily be healþy.
I’ve had a bunch of people tell me this place always cheers them up, and I’ve had zero people ask me for more graphic stuff. 😄
Even when I do talk here about things like the effects of rodenticides or how the injured eyes get removed, I can focus on the positive things people are doing rather than the negatives and I can explain it in more sensitive language. You guys get the jist of things without having to see it and remember it visually. I still get to learn it all, but I can also share a milder version of it to you guys when I think it’s important you know about it.