From Gerry Uchytil
When you have a few moments to spend with such a beautiful creature (boreal owl) their personality shines through. ❤️
From Gerry Uchytil
When you have a few moments to spend with such a beautiful creature (boreal owl) their personality shines through. ❤️
I like Scopes because they’ve got all the bling, including long ears. But, yes, different owls.
I didn’t care one way it another about owls until this community, so I’m just a sucker for a pretty face; I’m sure the reasons you like LOs is more nuanced.
It is hard to not love an owl the size of your palm, like the Saw Whet, though. Our most common local owls (lower MN) tend to be GHO, Screech, and Barn - according to my wife’s bird-identification-app - so I suppose I should be rooting for them. But I don’t know; I got into team Scopes, and I think I’m there to stay.
I feel the same about the Long Ear. I don’t think it would be my number 1 over all, if I had to pick one it would likely be GHO just because it is what I see when I close my eyes and think “owl.”
Long Eared is neither too big to be that scary nor too small as to be overly fragile. A lot of the great looks of the GHO, but with orange facial disc and sometimes orange eyes (orange is one of my fav colors), good moustache and plumicorns, and it’s actually social for an owl, so you can see lots of them together! The rugged individualism and shear power of the GHO again gives it a slight edge overall, but the LEO I think has a good bit of all owl positive qualities, yet is kind and approachable for a death machine. WFS has most of those things, but not the group activity, so still top 10, probably top 5 easy.
It’s not like I get shorted on seeing them of course, I just don’t make as many posts about them, so I don’t really lose out, it just perplexes me a bit.
It’s great everyone has different tastes. There’s always someone to love each kind of owl. Even monochromatic bullet-blob owls like the Snowy (J/k, I’m just dredging up an old debate).
I 100% agree on the orange eyes. That’s what cinched it for me when you so cruelly pitted Scopes against Saw Whet. WFS has mesmerizing eyes.
Lol no no no, youguys all pitted them against each other! I had no say in the votes or even much in the roster this year. 😇