Shadow is a Great Gray Owl living at Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek, California. She was found with a broken wing in 1999 in Minnesota. The raptor rescue center there gave her to the Lindsay where she is a regular participant in their outreach programs to schools and public events. Just like wild Great Gray Owls, Shadow feeds on small rodents. Her handler is Sarah Parnell.
Posted by: atowhee | January 24, 2014
MEET SHADOW
Posted in birds, california, natural history, owl | Tags: Great Gray Owl, Lindsay Museum, Shadow
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This individual at Lindsay is the only Great Gray I have ever seen. It’s nice to see she’s still educating people.
By: Jet Eliot on January 24, 2014
at 7:37 am
[…] are three past blogs that include images of Shadow during the few moments we were together.Here is my blog when I first met her on the arm of a museum staffer as I was researching the book. I was espcially interested jn a close look on those sharp but only inch-long […]
By: A SEASON OF SORROW | Towheeblog on December 8, 2020
at 12:24 pm
[…] March 18th is almost exactly three years from the last time I saw Shadow when I spoke at her home in Walnut Creek. Click here for images from that visit.Here are the first pictures I got of Shadow, back when I was researching the book, still the closest… […]
By: MARCH 18TH–GREAT GRAY OWL DAY! | Towheeblog on March 3, 2021
at 5:18 pm