owl

We have had a very handsome Great Horned Owl in the Asian Pear outside the bedroom window today, allowing me to take the best owl photos that I've ever been lucky enough to capture.  Mr Owl has been rather a formidable and censorious presence, except when he closed his eyes - and even then, that was probably intended to deceive.  One squirrel was brave enough to challenge him, and tried to chase him up a branch, and received a lazy wing-flap by way of return.  

The morning started, in fact, not with Owl, but with a very angry Cooper's Hawk outside, making a raucous cackle of a nest-defending sound: I think we now know why.

LucyFur?  A rather lethargic morning; perked up some this afternoon.  It's like that.  Feeding a cat under the watchful eyes of this guy - for he was looking down from the tree and into my study, at one point - was not a little intimidating.  He might look like a huge feathered tabby cat, but definitely isn't.