COOL!

[Amanda N]

I just heard and saw an owl!  Well, I saw the dark shape swooping down in the darkness as he passed from one perch to another.  No details, but it was still cool!

[Dana]

There are at least 2 owls nesting around where I live.  They're so beautiful.  I see them sometimes around twilight when I'm walking  

[Vix]

There were owls living in one of the trees in front of my old house. In fact, one day I had a ruckus outside, a neighbor walking his dog, and went out to find that a baby owl had fallen from the tree. I supplied a box and held the dog's lead while my neighbor scooped up the owl and ran off to the vet with it. I never heard how that turned out.


I haven't seen any owls lately, but we had a controversy going over a bird that perches on the back fence of our childcare center a couple times a week. One coworker said that it was an owl, I told her it was a hawk. A man stopping by for a tour got a glimpse and said that technically it's a falcon.

[PastMember]

When I was younger I was walking my dog Marley during the night. When we were walking up the main street I heard the unmistakable call of an owl, and then I saw it swoop down from a light post and glide up to a perch in the woods.

[Amanda N]

Isn't nature cool?

I remember seeing bats at twilight one time when I was at girl scout camp.

[Jane]

Bats!  I've never seen them in New Zealand (though they are the only native mammal the country has) but I've seen them in the UK, both flying and at a talk about bats where we got to touch them.  Wonderful!

[PastMember]

I hate bats, because I've only had horrible experiences with them. When I was in highschool my family rented a cabin, and while we were their a bat flew into the cabin and dove at us. It was really scary.

The second time I saw a bat it bit a girl and gave her rabies.

[Jane]

We have no rabies!

[Amanda N]

I got to swim with manatees once.  I was at a retreat with my youth group on Jeckyl Island (an Island off the coast of Georgia).  We were swimming and something suddenly came up beside us.  Then I felt something brush against my leg.  They came up again and I realised they were manatees!  I think I swam for an hour before I was called back to shore.  It was so cool!  They were so gentle!

[Kastaka]

I used to obsessively go to Birds of Prey showings when I was a child. Once an Eagle Owl landed on my dad's head. Those thing are enormous!

The quadrangle I was in at university had bats flying around and around it at night sometimes. When I started university I could hear them and by the time I finished I couldn't any more, which was quite an odd thing to be able to observe in yourself so directly.

[Amanda N]

We had an albino squirrel at my Uni.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/narilia/sets/620023/

[Jane]

We had an albino squirrel at my Uni.

What a good-looking chap!

[Amanda N]

He was, unfortunately, killed by a hawk.  There has been a sighting of another one there though.

[Avery]

Albino squirrels! As weird as Princeton's infamous black squirrels, which I'm going to be on a hunt for in a few weeks.

[Amanda N]

That sounds like fun!  I've never seen black squirrels before!