Giving a hoot about the T
By adamg - 11/6/12 - 12:11 am
Rob Watson photographed a "vaguely foreboding owl hanging out" above a Park Street exit tonight. A very real and alive, if vaguely foreboding, owl, he assures us.
Comments
Weird
I mean, an owl at Park St. I thought they ate rodents. Where would an owl find a rodent near Park St?
Wow
Lives on the mice in the station?
Update: Owl not part of MBTA vermin-control program
Joe Pesaturo at the T reports via e-mail:
Because I'm an owl, that's why
You gorgeous fluffy bastid you.
Maybe the T has gone with sustainable pest containment.
How very forward of them.
Now gimme my money back & give that owl a mouse - you give it a mouse right now!
Barred owl?
It looks like a barred owl. I'm quite surprised - I didn't think owls ever came into the city, unlike hawks.
I once had one
perchone perch on my fire escape on Beacon Hill for a couple of days. It was so lovely--big, dark, slightly bovine eyes.
Night Owl City!
Finally! The owls are invading the Subway to fill the raptor void left behind when the MBTA killed the Night Owl.
And an owl rescued in East Boston
A feisty little Northern Saw-whet owl.
I always wanted a pet owl
They look totally cool. (Getting shredded by their talons would not so cool though)
Owls don't make good pets
And keeping wild birds as pets surely violates some federal law. ;~}
You're absolutely right, Michael Kerpan.
Owls certainly don't make good pets, especially because they've been taken out of the habitat in the wild that they've always known. A certain amount of respect is necessary, because, no matter how cute, cuddly and/or tame an owl or any other wild, undomesticated animal may appear to be, it's still a wild animal nonetheless, and a certain amount of distance between wild animals and humans needs to be maintained. Having said all of the above, it's not only violating certain federal laws against having wild animals for pets, but it's downright cruel to the animal itself, not to mention posing a certain amount of risk to the person(s) who insist on bringing home any kind of undomesticated animal(s) as pets. People have had owls and other wild animals as pets, with disastrous results.
Happy Thanksgiving, Miki.
Happy Thanksgiving, Miki.
Owl
This same owl was in a tree in the Granary burying ground yesterday afternoon, right out side my office window.