I couldn’t help myself…

I’ve had a few cats that enjoyed snacking on random things as well. The sky cats/land owls comparison contintues!

My cats have enjoyed green beans. They all definitely liked chips. The one cat loved that cat grass you can buy to grow your own. My parent’s cat liked powdered donuts. I don’t think any ate fruit. One I saw eating macaroni salad and corn on the cob when she was a stray.

I couldn’t find much discussion on owls eating odd things, but there was a redditor that started pictures of a GHO eating acorns, which sounds very strange. I’m thinking it would just throw them up later. Owls have very weak digestion, and they’d be too big to get past the gizzard.

Owls are birds of prey, so they only eat meat. This can include insects, butterflies, snakes, fish, skunks, porcupines, rabbits, and whatever other small animals they can lift.

They can’t chew, their tongues just work like a conveyor belt to pull things down to be digested, so they can’t really eat a wide variety of things, and they don’t have a crop to break down fruit/vegetable matter or seeds like other birds.

You will find people online of course saying they’ve seen an owl eat this or that. Owls are goofy like most animals and will chew on things to check them out when they are bored, but I don’t see any accounts of them eating anything but meat for sustenance. All the rescues give them various birds and rodents and that’s it. They don’t even need to drink as they get all the water from their prey, though again, they will drink if they’re hot or bored or while taking a bath.

I thought they looked really good myself. Since there wasn’t an actual person’s name, I went back and forth deciding if they were legit pics or not, since they looked potentially too good, but since camera info was supplied, I feel that lends authenticity, as people that know what that stuff means can call BS if it isn’t accurate.

Quand il s’agit de chouettes, j’ai les doigts d’or. 😜

Convergent evolution 😆

No consensus has been reached. Communication and camouflage are the 2 main theories. I don’t buy the camo one myself. I don’t think they’re big enough to make a difference.

😆

There seems to not be any consensus on if this is an apple or Asian pear. Pear seemed to have the slight majority, so that’s what I went with.

Either way, I don’t think the variety of fruit detracts from the enjoyment of the photo. ☺️

To most little creatures, any owl might as well be one of the fellbeasts the Nazgul ride on.

I hadn’t heard of Ori, but it looks cool, though all the pics and videos I’m looking at are too dark. I’ll have to look into it some more. No Xbox, so I’ll have to watch a play through.

I always give the photos a critical look since most owls have one eye color, but the Long Ear can have eyes from very yellow to very orange. It always has me looking to see how much manipulation has been done to the image.

Long Eared Owls to me are very striking in navy regards, but to a tasteful, restrained amount. The eyes, facial disc, plumicorns, and overall coloration. They’re bold, but not over the top.

It’s one of my top owls, but it’s usually not so popular here, and maybe that is why - they don’t have that one thing to capture attention.

Hadouken!

I did see, I went back and corrected my post once I saw the others.

Nature photography seems to present a lot of challenges as you pointed out earlier. You only can carry so much equipment and you have a subject with no interest in cooperating that can move at any moment. It makes it all the more impressive, even to get less than ideal shots.

It only put up one with a pair of butterflies. I like it though. All the appendages stand out nicely and you see some details of the eyes. The one flying is also nice and clear looking.

I live near some water, and it would be cool to catch some of the dragonflies like this to get a nice look at them.

Edit: Now I see you broke them out. And you even had a dragonfly! I like that and that fuzzy little bee face too. I’ve been trying to post better attention to all the unique bee types we have as well.

You seem to know what you want and you enjoy doing it, so I’d call that successful.

Do you share any of your pics online?

All my photography friends feel the same way about weddings. I imagine after a few people blaming you for ruining their special day for whatever crazy reason is going to kill your passion for something.

I really should look into some of the regulars I share to see if they have public gigs. There’s been a few photos I wouldn’t mind getting prints of, and I’d gladly share a link for them if it gets them some funding. If they do sell the photos I’d also be curious as to where since they’d probably have good articles to share as well.