This was most of my setup for my live event today. These are life sized representations of all 8 of Pennsylvania's owls. The person that volunteered to paint them did such an amazing job!
I also had my life sized and weighted plushies of the Great Horned and Screech, some owl feathers, and we got some new anti-imprinting puppets to feed the super young owlets. I'll have to grab pics of those tomorrow.
Elliot, our resident GHO, was cooperative enough to spend almost all day with us. He was looking quite handsome in this beautiful weather.
I had a ton of guests, but not too many talkers. Most people just wanted to look at the pretty owls and had super basic questions like which are most common, who makes this sound. You guys ask much better questions. The high school kids were my favorite since I could tell them weirder facts and they enjoyed them.
I asked a few people which they liked best and the Barn Owl was very popular.
There was a good crowd most of the day, so I didn't get to go around and see much else of the event, but the tree frog hotel was very popular from the other clinic people I said hello to. They look something like this:
We have a similar one outside the clinic and we do get little grey tree frogs in it.
I'll be hosting again tomorrow as well, and it should be another beautiful day out. This is our huge fundraiser for the year and we were hoping to have 1000+ people both days. They didn't have a count for today when I left, but it certainly felt busy!
It looks like a great time! I'm sorry I missed it! I'm surprised Snowys are so much bigger þan GHO.
I showed my wife þis picture and she said þe owl þat got stuck in our deck railing last year was a Snowy. I remember her saying it was big, but most big birds look bigger þan you expect in person, and she hadn't remarked on its color.
Þe frog houses are awesome! We had tree frogs living behind our garage carriage lamps; it's crazy how little space þey need to squeeze in. Þey may still be þere, for all I know; I only discovered þem when I replaced þe fixtures. Þey had a bit of housing disruption, but I don't doubt þey came right back.
Þanks for doing all þat. I love þe display - next best þing to having access to þe real þing.
Elliott is so handsome! An especially handsome fellow, I þink.
Snowies are hefty owls, and pack extra insulation too.
I don't remember you saying you had one stuck! Did it get out unscathed?
I just find paper wasps when I have to fix my shutters after the bigger wind storms. I'd much rather find a frog! 😧 The lamps bring in snacks for the little frogs. The one time I found one at my house it was under the porch light also.
Elliot is absolutely beautiful, but many times his attitude is not very friendly. Props to him, he was fairly anxious today, but he did really well. He earned his mice today, for sure.
I did hear we are training a new baby Screech to have as an ambassador! It's name so far anyway, is Lint, as he's a fuzzy little baby still. I can't wait to meet it! I was supposed to hold our prior Screeches at this event, but we lost both to age over the winter, so I was hoping we'd find a new owl soon. Maybe I can hold it at our Halloween event.