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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts) Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:30 PM Mar 2012

Great Picture: Wildlife

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OK, so this photo has nothing to do with climate change (trust us, we tried). But we loved it so much we just had to share. A Little Owl is almost perfectly camouflaged among the ceramic insulators on a telegraph pole in Dobrogea, Romania. Wildlife photographer Mircea Costina only spotted the owl after another bird gave its position away.
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Heh!
That's a tiny owl!

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Great Picture: Wildlife (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Mar 2012 OP

Maybe a burrowing owl of some kind. They are small. tabatha Mar 2012 #1

Awww! How cute! Cleita Mar 2012 #2

Look at how big its feet are Aerows Mar 2012 #7

Maybe, but they eat the mouse whole from Cleita Mar 2012 #11

Delight! -full! patrice Mar 2012 #3

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW MichaelMcGuire Mar 2012 #4

I have to say it Aerows Mar 2012 #5

cute. Liberal_in_LA Mar 2012 #6

So cute! frogmarch Mar 2012 #8

These just came to me via email, AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2012 #9

Is this the picture? catbyte Mar 2012 #12

That's disturbing considering that racoons like to eat kittens. n/t Cleita Mar 2012 #14

Yes it is, AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2012 #16

That is one awesome picture. aquamarina Mar 2012 #10

Pardon this old hermeneuticrat for constructing metaphors in the sky out of that upside-down patrice Mar 2012 #13

Too cute! Glimmer of Hope Mar 2012 #15

awwwwwwwwww, itty bitty owl!!!!! BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2012 #17

that is so cute. reminds me of screech owls. He is tapping his little roguevalley Mar 2012 #18

tabatha

(18,795 posts)

1. Maybe a burrowing owl of some kind. They are small.

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:31 PM

Mar 2012

Cleita

(75,480 posts)

2. Awww! How cute!

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:33 PM

Mar 2012

I wonder what he eats. He seems too small to catch mice.

Aerows

(39,961 posts)

7. Look at how big its feet are

Reply to Cleita (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:14 PM

Mar 2012

I'm thinking those big toes and talons could catch a mouse.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)

11. Maybe, but they eat the mouse whole from

Reply to Aerows (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:41 PM

Mar 2012

what I understand and he seems too small to do that.

patrice

(47,992 posts)

3. Delight! -full!

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:57 PM

Mar 2012

MichaelMcGuire

(1,684 posts)

4. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:08 PM

Mar 2012

Aerows

(39,961 posts)

5. I have to say it

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:13 PM

Mar 2012

IT'S SO CUTE!!!

It's precious. Look how HUGE its feet are in relation to its body.

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

6. cute.

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:13 PM

Mar 2012

frogmarch

(12,153 posts)

8. So cute!

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:21 PM

Mar 2012

Meanwhile, back at the ranch in Dobrogea, Romania, the Lone Ranger, disguising himself as an owlet disguising himself as a ceramic insulator on a telegraph pole, bided his time and waited for bad guys.

AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,850 posts)

9. These just came to me via email,

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:21 PM

Mar 2012

(All the words show up, but I don't see the pictures? The bottom one is a raccoon holding a kitten, the gang are raindeer or elk. If anyone knows more about posting pictures here I guess I could forward them via email. PM me.)
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