Visit to an owl Centre

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I volunteered at the Audubon society (I think that’s the correct spelling or is that the German highway) when I was younger. It was not very glamours most of the time I’d be cleaning up duck crap and what not but they had an injured owl I got to have on my arm. We had to wear very thick leather gloves as their talons ain’t no joke but having one perched on your arm and looking into its eyes from a foot away is something you don’t forget. You can see from the pictures there is something in an owls eyes than can be off putting but also inviting, it’s very strange to experience
 
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I volunteered at the Audubon society (I think that’s the correct spelling or is that the German highway) when I was younger. It was not very glamours most of the time I’d be cleaning up duck crap and what not but they had an injured owl I got to have on my arm. We had to wear very thick leather gloves as their talons ain’t no joke but having one perched on your arm and looking into its eyes from a foot away is something you don’t forget. You can see from the pictures there is something in an owls eyes than can be off putting but also inviting, it’s very strange to experience

One of the staff had a young owl on his arm and he was telling us that he takes it home every day, seemingly this breed and I forget the name will eat the young after two weeks if they are still in the nest so it is removed and he is now parenting but then of course he will have to break the bond in time.