And then the Great Horned Owl

Crumby seldom employs optical devices for bird watching or as some would have it, birding. No. Crumby prefers to birdwatch, or bird, employing only his goddess provided eyeballs plus spectacles; also provided exclusively by the WG, but circuitously through Pearl Vision. The methodology Crumby employs filters bird noise and bird gestalt through Crumby’s noggin for correct bird identification. Or maybe not. Maybe the identifications are all wrong. But since the identifications make Crumby happy, so what.

Anyway, once upon a very recent time, Crumby was going along, happily identifying the various little birds, primarily sparrows, employing the methodology, bird noise plus gestalt, when suddenly a real birder appeared in the same habitat. And the real birder pointed out an active great horned owl nest to the unobservant Crumby. Goodness! It’s right there. And there’s an owl on it. Mercy!

Well. Since then Crumby has been fixing to take pictures of the owls. Right away he got a picture of an owl on the nest. Then naturally Crumby got to fretting. What if that poor owl is fixing to try and raise babies alone? Where’s the mate? I got to see if there’s twain great horned owls.

Crumby’s fret was satisfied the very next day thanks to the dang crows. Yes. Crows are ever on the alert for owls. Look! Those twain crows are fussing at that owl on that nest. But then those crows switched their fussy behavior over to a nearby tree. And lo, a great many more crows joined the original twain crows so that there were ten crows.

Hmm. Speculated Crumby. I reckon the other owl is over yonder.

Crumby circled around and eventually took this picture of the other owl that was loose and not on the nest whereas the other owl, not shown, was still on the nest, making for twain owls.

Taking pictures of owls is hard work, not helped by the chromatic aberration.