Birds...

[bladebandit]

The past few weeks and months have been both difficult and busy. Am currently in the process of doing 9 straight days of Uni/work without a break and it's knackering me out.

Shows have started up again now; the birds seem to be much happier for it. Love seeing them all fly; even if they don't do so well sometimes. We got a circuit out of the

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Re: Pure coolness!

[windfthrblkmane]

Yup I hear yeah can be interesting indeed but yup some profs and lecturers can over-complicate things for themselves very quickly. I have had this same experience in the past with some of the ones I had in school. As you say you just do it yerself and get on with other things. Yup some will do that, I have had some that have totally forgotten what they were doing. That is really interesting. Then you the student have to get them back on track.

Indeed, photos never really do justice to something. A camera is never as good as the human eye at seeing all there is to see. Um yeah I new that I got the two confused, thank you very much for correcting my blatant error. There is a reason they call it the Great Horned owl after all. Boy do I feel silly now. The horned owls show up around her periodically. My grandmother had a pair that were stuffed and mounted in her house. they were shot by my grandfather and his brother when they were in their twenties. that would have been back in the early 1900's. It is nice to know this will never happen again in the US because all birds of prey are protected by the government.

I figured they were but did not want to jump to any conclusions. That is awesome that they have very visible way of displaying how they feel and what is going on. Yup body language usually in most animals is a good indicator of what kind of mood they are in and what their over all state of health is. Very cool stuff. I see so an owl like a cat shows its displeasure by making itself look bigger and making awful noises how interesting. Nice to know he was relaxed.

Aw I see, I figured this might be the case with captive Owls, only makes sense. Yup makes sense with the ones raised by the parents as well, nature has a built in avoidance tool to keep animals safe thus the parents would make babies cautious of human contact. I see, yeah this makes sense all animal are individuals with unique personalities so it will truly vary!

I want yer job! Sounds like heaps o fun and a great learning experience as well!

BTW thank you for taking time out of yer busy days to answer my questions an reply back to me! You are to cool!

Thank you lass!C:

A most awesome and wonderful day to you!

Re: Pure coolness!

[bladebandit]

Ugh, yeah. It's such a pain. Repeating when the class doesn't understand is one thing; repeating when only ONE person doesn't understand is another. Just explain it to them after the lecture and stop wasting everyone else's time. Ugh I could rant about that woman all day. :/

Great horns are awesome. The one we have is probably one of the best owls in the centre; it's always a pleasure to fly him!

Yeah, making yourself look bigger is a commonly used technique in the animal kingdom. All owls can puff themselves up and do a threat display similar to this: http://cdn2.arkive.org/media/9B/9BCE8C7B-6188-475B-ADD5-DC9A193853DA/Presentation.Large/Short-eared-owl-in-threat-display.jpg (Or just google 'owl threat display' and you'll see lots of other photos).

Have a lovely day too!

Re: Pure coolness!

[windfthrblkmane]

Indeed. Been there and had this done to me as well. It wastes way to much time. The smart proffs do just that or we had a program in one of the buildings on campus where students could go after hours and get help from fellow students who knew the material. It made things so much nicer and saved wasted time in class. I understand how you feel it does drive one nutters.

Truly they are. Aw man that is too cool! Nice when they are friendly and well behaved. I really want to figure out a way to come and see you, you sound like you are having a blast, plus it would be fun to just hang with such an awesome lass such as you! Am i allowed?

Truly it is a common display, bigger is better as they say and scarier. This is cool thank you for showing me.Will do I love leaning new things about animals.

Thank you very much.

May life be you friend and may you have a wonderful evening. Friendly hugs to ya!