Posted by: atowhee | January 24, 2014

MEET SHADOW

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SHDW-FACE SID1 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.P1840917 (1280x960)


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  1. This individual at Lindsay is the only Great Gray I have ever seen. It’s nice to see she’s still educating people.

  2. […] 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 […]

  3. […] 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… […]


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