I've only gotten close to an owl once before today, and that was when mountain biking in a ponderosa forest. They are larger and more powerful than I expected. They seem more exotic and menacing than other raptors. So I grinned from ear to ear when a friend walked us over to an owl nest on the southwest side of Tucson. (Gee, maybe I should provide GPS coordinates so readers will have the ultimate in convenience in finding the owl. Isn't that how "RV blogs" are supposed to work?)
An impudent Malevolence in the shadows...
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I once lived in a place where owls would nest in the woods, right outside my door. Few things are cooler than being still and listening to the owls.
I caught the sarcasm in your last sentence and I, for one, appreciate what you meant. Drawing others to a serendipitous find like that is not only wrong but spoils not only the adventure of finding things for oneself but the satisfaction of finding it in the first place.
So many things are disturbed or destroyed in nature, or that were left behind so many years ago by travelers or inhabitants of an area, by people who have no appreciation or idea what they're seeing or doing. It sometimes truly is like casting pearls before swine.
The average metropolitan environmentalist is more theological regarding nature than bible-thumpers are regarding the Bible.