Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Important Discovery

This is Sanders, another ambassador owl, doing her best impression of a solar panel. When relaxed and presented with a sunbeam, burrowing owls will soak up the rays by laying flat and sometimes even spreading the wings to absorb more heat.


Spotting a sunbeam in the corner of our interpretive centre, I decided to find out if George loved sunbeams as much as the next burrowing owl.

After setting George down in the middle of a hearty sunbeam, this is how he immediately reacted.



Let's take a close up.


Oh dear, I disturbed his reverie.



This deserves some video. LOOK AT HIS TINY TAIL!




I think this was an important day for George. Sunbeams are awesome.

Age: 20 days old
Mass: 126 grams
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6 comments:

  1. aaronJuly 16, 2009 at 11:26 AM

    if you hook up wires to their feet, could they be the next solution to renewable energy? hehe

    another lol-caption of georgie's great expression "i crashded" (check my name-url for pic)

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  2. Soda and CandyJuly 17, 2009 at 10:58 AM

    in that first pic, it looks like Georgie face-planted. adorable.

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  3. otisandfrankJuly 18, 2009 at 10:21 PM

    oooh, could he be any cuter? i had no idea about the sunbeam/owl connection!

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  4. AnonymousJuly 19, 2009 at 5:47 AM

    It's simply lovely. Thank you for all these wonderful pictures and videos!

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  5. Ramey ChannellJuly 21, 2009 at 8:57 AM

    I've seen baby birds do this in my back yard. I think they were robins, and the parent birds were acting quite normal, but all the babies were sprawled out on the ground, and I thought at first that they were injured. After a while, they all fluttered away.

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  6. AnonymousOctober 19, 2009 at 11:13 PM

    He looks like me when I wake up in the 3rd pic... do owls like coffee? ^_^

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