Just to the left of the flags on the diagonal branch of a birch tree, Jim spotted an owl. Well, first he spotted a number of blue jays frantically calling, "Thief! Thief!" And as he watched, it became clear that the owl was a target for yelling blue jays.
A barred owl says, "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you?" Mostly it was annoyed that I was disturbing its daytime rest.
This one is Linda Blair in the Exorcist, swiveling her head full circle to keep me in view. We watched it preen and clean off its talons for the evening meal. "Who cooks for you?"
"Can grave and formal pass for wise, When Men the solemn Owl despise?"
ReplyDelete~ Benjamin Franklin
"Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so"
~ Lord Byron
"The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride."
~ Proverb
"The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white."
~ William Blake
"Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits."
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea/ In a beautiful pea-green boat,/ They took some honey, and plenty of money,/ Wrapped up in a five-pound note."
~ Edward Lear
"The rabbits' eye differs from that of the owl."
~ Greek proverb
"The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon."
~ David Mallet
And my very favorite....
"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad."
~ Henry Ward Beecher