Alice the Great Horned Owl is a permanently injured owl who works at the Houston Nature Center in Houston, MN and lives with her handler, Karla Bloem. Rusty and Iris are Great Horned Owls that are both blind in their right eyes and cannot live in the wild. Rusty and Iris are breeding in captivity as part of Karla's vocal study on Great Horned Owls. All together they have led to the creation of an International Owl Center in Houston, MN and an International Festival of Owls.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Pandora and Patrick Take a Shower
The roof is solid over the aviaries where Rusty, Iris and kids live, other than one section in the breeding pen and one section in the flight pen. The owls can choose to sit on a perch in the rain or out of the rain this way and the roof is easily able to bear the load of snow in the winter.
Here Pandora and Patrick discover rain and showering for the first time. As you can see, they're really getting into it! They went on and on and on, getting themselves soaked down to the skin. Patience was still back at the nest, busy being the baby of the family.
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