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I was just curious–you’ve painted the circle of cats and the cat leaf scone and others in different colorss–have you ever considered painting the parliment of owls and owl candlelamp to look like real owls? I’m think barn owls, snowy owls? I don’t know if people love the owls like I do so just tossing this out there. 🙂
That’s a really good idea actually. I like owls but not really enough to buy those sculpts, but if there was a snowy owl one… I might need that. 🙂
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Dreamscape, Orion, Poison Dart, Fireberry, Spangler + Tigerberry DragonsGreat idea! I love owls.
Does anyone else get annoyed watching Harry Potter when you can hear Hedwig’s wings flapping? I can’t remember which movie it is (although it might be more than one).
drag0nfeathers wrote::::snip::::… I might need that. 🙂
LOL!! You might NEED that! lol Made me laugh……..
Oh please don’t paint the owl sculpts, please, no. Don’t. Don’t do that to me.
I haven’t watched the movies but I would find that annoying! Like aren’t owls [Hedwig’s a Snowy] have extra feathers on their wings so that they fly silently? I knpw the smaller ground type don’t but snowys, barns do!
LadyFirebird wrote:I was just curious–you’ve painted the circle of cats and the cat leaf scone and others in different colorss–have you ever considered painting the parliment of owls and owl candlelamp to look like real owls? I’m think barn owls, snowy owls? I don’t know if people love the owls like I do so just tossing this out there. 🙂
Yes, I want to paint one of our small owls like this “transformer owl” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCgbYnNAbSM 😆
Anyone know what species this is?I love that video, you should totally do it! 😀
I did some research, and it seems that it is a Northern White-faced Owl. Or maybe a Southern one, not really sure.
I think it’s a Japanese Scops Owl http://www.owlpages.com/image.php?image=species-Otus-semitorques-1 here’s another picture of a scop owl http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2009/06/aardvarks-debut-at-zoo.html [scroll down a bit from the ardvark] Just put ‘Japanese Scops Owl’ in your search engine and these come up. There are others as well and they look pretty similar to that youtube owl.
LadyFirebird wrote:I haven’t watched the movies but I would find that annoying! Like aren’t owls [Hedwig’s a Snowy] have extra feathers on their wings so that they fly silently? I knpw the smaller ground type don’t but snowys, barns do!
I have always heard is that owls fly silently which makes them very effective hunters. It is a pet peeve of mine when movies get basic animal facts wrong. My niece who is 22 now still remembers when I took her to see Andre the Seal when she was 7 or 8. The poor kid had to listen to a 10 minute diatribe about how they used a sea lion and not a seal to play Andre. And since I did it coming out of the theater evidently I really embarrassed her. 😳 The funny one is the time I was watching Stuart Little with some friends and ranted about how they had the teeth of the mice completely wrong. So my friend, Pat, looks at me and says “But the fact that he is speaking is ok?” XD
Owls do fly silently. It drove me berserk in the Harry Potter movies when they went flap-flap-flap. (Except in the Great Hall, then I could convince myself it was the mail they were carrying rustling, not the wings, lol.)
It’s not the number of feathers; it’s the fact that owl feathers are softer, especially around the edges, so they flex instead of cutting through the air. I docented at the Birmingham Zoo for several years (i.e. talked to people and school groups about animals, in the zoo and in general) and in the education stuff there was a pair of preserved wings, one from an owl and one from a duck. It was very easy to feel the difference between the feathers on the wings and when I ‘flapped’ them, the duck went whisss, and the owl went . Not a sound. Besides, we had several families of screech owls nest in my yard growing up, and when they got territorial the first thing you knew about it was when you got a headful of claws. Never a whisper of sound to warn you they were there.
Thrippa wrote:Owls do fly silently. It drove me berserk in the Harry Potter movies when they went flap-flap-flap. (Except in the Great Hall, then I could convince myself it was the mail they were carrying rustling, not the wings, lol.)
.It’s nice to know I’m not the only one that bothers – it makes feel like less of a fanatic!
ddvm wrote:LadyFirebird wrote:I haven’t watched the movies but I would find that annoying! Like aren’t owls [Hedwig’s a Snowy] have extra feathers on their wings so that they fly silently? I knpw the smaller ground type don’t but snowys, barns do!
I have always heard is that owls fly silently which makes them very effective hunters. It is a pet peeve of mine when movies get basic animal facts wrong. My niece who is 22 now still remembers when I took her to see Andre the Seal when she was 7 or 8. The poor kid had to listen to a 10 minute diatribe about how they used a sea lion and not a seal to play Andre. And since I did it coming out of the theater evidently I really embarrassed her. 😳 The funny one is the time I was watching Stuart Little with some friends and ranted about how they had the teeth of the mice completely wrong. So my friend, Pat, looks at me and says “But the fact that he is speaking is ok?” XDHa ha! Yes!Oh boy ! Incorrect animal details in cartoons! One of my favorite subjects!
Did you ever notice the doves in “Snow White ” that drank water by lifting their heads? All types of birds do that… except doves and pigeons. This is an understandible mistake though.
There was a kind-of “educational” kid detective cartoon show once that had the kids on an adventure in South America. They befriended a couple of llamas who gave them rides… but the llamas were drawn with horns like big horn sheep!! Heehee!
Then there are all the cartoon rabbits that have pink toe pads…
I don’t mind that they all can talk, the birds have teeth, or that cartoon characters can can blow up a balloon and float away with it, or be shot repeatedly with a gun. That sort of stuff makes perfect sense!😆 Oh yes, what they do with cartoons. How about the Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner? Coyote has been blown up, had heavy objects fall on his head and fell off numerous cliffs and still comes back for more! Cartoons like that are different. I’ve been reading the Guardians of Ga’Hoole books and I have to admit the author seems to be right on with her owl characters and how they fly, where they live etc. Of course the owls talk and make weapons and use fire but that is fantasy. She did do some research on owls and decided to create this make believe world in which they live in. I’m curious to when the movie comes out if there’ll be flappy wings and such.
I like owls but live in the city limits where we don’t see them too often. Don’t see why not–we have a female peregrine falcon that comes year after year with a new mate and nests on top of City Hall. But having them in your yard where they get territorial and swoop down to claw your head doesn’t sound much like fun–have to wear a hard hat when you go out!
One of my pet peeves is that when movies like Harry Potter come out and they have an unusual pet, like a snowy owl, then kids get the idea that these would make neat pets! I saw a website where a woman was pretty much telling you what it would be like to have an owl as a pet–um, no thanks! I would love to watch them in a natural habitat but I certainly wouldn’t want to own one!
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