The owl who Liked Sitting on Caesar : : Living With a Tawny owl
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A note on owls -- Introduction -- Man meets owl : man loses owl : man meets his one true owl -- Owls : the science bit, and the folklore -- The stowaway on the seventh floor -- The private life of the tawny owl -- Mumble in her pride -- The driver's manual -- Mumble's day -- Mumble's year -- Real trees and free-range mice -- Departure.
The author reflects on his fifteen-year relationship with a tawny owl, an unlikely companionship marked by their incredulous neighbors, books, and unique care challenges.
The story of an odd couple: a British military historian and the Tawny Owl with whom he lived for fifteen years. Adorable but with knife-sharp talons, Mumble became Windrow's closest, if at times unpredictable, companion, first in a South London flat and later in the more owl-friendly Sussex countryside. Windrow recalls with wry humor their finer moments as well as the reactions of incredulous neighbors, the awkwardness of buying Mumble unskinned rabbit at Harrods Food Hall... and an unexpected education in the paleontology, zoology, and sociology of owls.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 302 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374228460
SUBJECTS
Windrow, Martin.
Tawny owl -- Great Britain.
Owls as pets -- Great Britain.
Owls.