visitor

We had an interesting visitor yesterday::

Meet Mr. Owl. Or is it Mrs. Owl? Don't know...gotta check out my bird books.

Mr. Owl really surprised me. I first saw him flying away from our deck. Ava and I had spread sunflower seeds on the railing the other day to attract the little birds. I'm pretty sure owls aren't interested in those seeds. I hope he's not after my little birds! (do they eat little birds or just little mammals? I guess a Google search would clarifiy.)

Any HOO- he sat on the tree close to our house for a long, long time. Staring at us just as we were staring at him.

At one point I was describing to Mark over the phone the owl I'd seen and I was shocked to see that he was back on the deck railing! (I thought he'd left since I didn't see him sitting in the tree- didn't occur to me that he'd come back up to the house).

I *heart* owls...I love hearing their calls too. One of the cool things about living in the middle of the woods.

eta- Saw Mr. Owl this afternoon- this time in the front of our house. I managed to get one photo (through the window) before he swooped away. I wonder...I've got lots of birdseed out- and I bet there are mice and other small critters eating it too. I think I can make an edumacated guess that he's after those little critters.