Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for November 18, 2024

I love Wallace’s mum

We’ve got some barred owls out here in OR too. I love em! The best is when they sound like a laughing monkey!

Sterling as usual sleeping with his eyes open

Best mom EVER

Who gives a hoot about school when there’s a barred owl to watch.

We know where Wallace gets his love of nature from. Better go look, Wallace. Maybe the owl belongs to a Barred Bigfoot.

Whatta Mom!

From PBS:

To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their smaller cousins.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday was expected to release its final plan to prop up declining spotted owl populations in Oregon, Washington state and California. The Associated Press obtained details in advance.

The plan calls for killing up to 470,000 barred owls over three decades after the birds from the eastern U.S. encroached into the territory of two West Coast owls: northern spotted owls and California spotted owls. The smaller spotted owls have been unable to compete for food and habitat with the invaders.

In case anyone needed to be reminded of where Wallace gets his eccentricities from…

She is simply the best. And dig Seagull…

I love Wally’s mum :-))

There are learning experiences which can never take place within the classroom.

I live in London on the parkland walk. There were a couple owls nearby, I could often hear them. On night it was so loud it must have been in our garden. I regret not going to take a look.