Photo by John Hoang
A Burrow Owl makes hunting look easy.
There’s a lot of things in this photo to comment on, so let’s get something going on here. You’ve all been too quiet lately!
Somehow I never realized owls eat bugs. I guess all the owl pellets I dissected lied to me
Word!
Does anyone know what kind of beetle that is? Other than a lunch beetle.
I have this post from before where the photographer called it a June bug, but someone else got very defensive that it was actually a figeater beetle. That looks similar to this, so check out those 2 first.
Would’ve expected the owl to be hunting at night (?)
I wanna see a no-scope 360 catch now. Great pic though.
Edit: I once lost a Burrow owl. Looked all over in the trees. Couldn’t find it.
Stuart, I warned you they were doing things to the soil. Now the trees are full of burrow owls!
Landing strips for owls I guess.
That’s like a blessed owl who is giving thanks for its meal.
Why’d this make me wonder whether owl tastes like chicken
William and Francis Buckland: The Father and Son Who Ate Every Animal Possible William and Francis Buckland saw Noah’s Ark as a dinner menu.
William entertained guests at his home and the college with exotic meals of things like hedgehogs, roast ostrich, porpoise, crocodile steaks and even cooked puppies.
When Buckland was visiting an Italian cathedra some time between 1826 and 1836, a priest told him the slick floor was due to the miraculously ever-flowing blood of sacrificed martyrs; he knelt, ran his tongue across the ground, and declared the liquid to be bat urine.
Most notably, William allegedly ingested the 140ish-year-old mummified heart belonging to King Louis XIV of France. The heart had been stolen during the French Revolution until William’s friend, Lord Harcourt, somehow acquired it. When Harcourt withdrew the heart from a silver snuffbox, William quickly popped it in his mouth.
Mmmmm!!!
Tonight’s dinner special, mummified heart of royal with a side of cooked puppies. Quench your thirst with our finest bat urine.
While a young professor at Oxford, he was hard-pressed for money so he amped up his eccentricities in lectures to attract fee-paying students with racy jokes and profanity.
There appears to be no clear incident or time period when William started taking a fork and knife through the animal kingdom, but it could have been his doubling-down on eccentric behavior for widespread notoriety.
When people wonder what attention whores did before social media and YouTube, this is it.