[Faline]

Photographer Denis Dumoulin took this picture of an owl swooping down on a mouse in Mirabel, Quebec.

Love the claws.

[kellyhound]

the silent killer as they have unique feathers on their wings

[lkduke3]

So beautiful! A couple of years ago a barn owl became entangled in some new netting that I had put up in the barn that he wasn't aware of. He was on the ground completely knocked cuckoo. The dogs were barking ferociously. I ran out and found him.

I was hesitant to pick him/her up because the talons were so long and sharp and the beak was quite sharp. But I slowly picked him up and took him to the house and put it on the enclosed sunporch.

The next morning when I went out he started flying from one end of the porch to the other. I SO MUCH wanted to keep him. He was so beautiful. He would let me pet him and he would sit on my wrist. A most beautiful creature.

I let him go. I really wanted to keep him but he was too beautiful to keep in a cage. It was truly a spiritual experience.

[Photoplay]

Wow What a picture.

[Sharon]

Beautiful photograph