2022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow's Research Blog
ANIMALS, PEOPLE AND THOSE IN BETWEEN
I usually don’t post personal thrills (liar) 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:
… and this one – a 9 week old abandoned tawny owl:
…and a peregrine falcon and an american kestrel. and 2 very keen and knowledgable teenage girls.
A US filmmaker, Nicholas Berger, made an 18 min doc in 2008 looking at the red vs grey issue, and came out for the reds. I have yet to see the film, but I’m happy someone made it and blurred any nationalist allegiances.
Michelle Hirschhorn pointed this out last night…
the UK craze for trampolines + happy little wild things
(and some call them pests…)
“The Friend Feeder I” a.k.a. British Birds.
After Lucien Freud’s Leigh Bowery.
Sketch for a life-sized wildlife feeder.
