Thursday, June 24, 2010

Living in the country...


Living in the country has lots of advantages. One in particular is all the animals my son’s have had the opportunity to see first hand. They’ve seen: a calf being born, horses, cows, swans, ducks, rabbits, long horns, sheep, goats, raccoons, armadillos, possums, turtles, and recently an owl.


Jon’s parents live just down the street from us. A couple of months ago his mom told us that an owl was nesting in their trees and just had a baby. Some times she even finds the baby owl taking a bath in her sprinkler.


Every time we go over to their house we search for the owl…and he is always close by. We found him one day just sitting on the ground by a tree…we probably got within 25 feet of it…he just sat there. (of course I didn’t have a camera with me)


We don’t know how long he will stay….we hope for a while. It is neat having a “pet” owl.

I tried to get a picture the other day, but he was high up in a tree and it didn’t come out that great. The picture above is from a web site. I will keep trying to get a good picture of our owl.


There are many types of owls, some are really ugly!!! “Ours” is called the Barred Owl…we think he’s pretty cute!

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