1.02022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow's Research Bloghttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022Marinahttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022/blog/author/admin/I usually don't post personal thrills (<em>liar</em>) but I have a soft spot for owls. I'd only ever gotten to pet a taxidermied one. This is a 4 year-old barn owl rescue; some teenagers brought their imprinted charges out to Holy Island from Berwick on Tweed, to raise money for their parents' rescue operation. There was this one: <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22155573@N00/3665658527/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2433/3665655331_0b0e4ce6e5.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="430" height="322" /></a></p> ... and this one - a 9 week old abandoned tawny owl: <p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3613/3666469454_77f9b9d247.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="375" height="500" /></p> ...and a peregrine falcon and an american kestrel. and 2 very keen and knowledgable teenage girls.rich