09 April 2020, 08:49 PM
wtgThe silence of the owls
Just in case it wasn't obvious, I love owls.
Great article about why they fly so quietly:
https://www.knowablemagazine.o...source=pocket-newtabThere is also a sidebar article for geeky types. It's in the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.
https://www.annualreviews.org/...-fluid-010518-040436
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
09 April 2020, 09:12 PM
CHASHad a Great Horned Owl fly less than four feet in front of me.
It startled me. It was dusk. I did not see or hear him coming..
10 April 2020, 11:54 AM
NinaWe had a barn owl that visited a tree outside our house in Arizona. What fantastic birds. We would see them fly well before we heard them, and their sound, if you were close enough, was just a slight whooshing sound. "Our" owl would also hoot for an hour or so every night.
One of my favorite memories of our old house.
