Making Light :: Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:14:42 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.34-en Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona Two pages, no explanations. I just like them. More burrowing owls; this photo by Jason Stemple. They're a convivial species.... Two pages, no explanations. I just like them. More burrowing owls; this photo by Jason Stemple. They're a convivial species.... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #1 from Greg van Eekhout comment from Greg van Eekhout on 19.Nov.02 I saw some of these in the parking lot at Scottsdale Community College. One was standing in front of a drainpipe, presumably waiting for something to crawl out of it. They were great fun to watch. Cheaper than the zoo.

]]> <p>Posted November 19, 2002 4:14 PM by Greg van Eekhout</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8619 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8619 Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:14:42 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #2 from JS comment from JS on 19.Nov.02 These are the coolest looking owls I've ever seen. I wish I could see them for real, though the photographs are beautiful.

]]> <p>Posted November 19, 2002 4:24 PM by JS</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8620 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8620 Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:24:23 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #3 from Scott Janssens comment from Scott Janssens on 19.Nov.02 Is it just me or is the owl in the first piction on the second page flipping us the *ahem* bird?

]]> <p>Posted November 19, 2002 4:53 PM by Scott Janssens</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8621 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8621 Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:53:27 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #4 from Scott Janssens comment from Scott Janssens on 19.Nov.02 That should be picture, not piction. Fingers moving faster than the brain.

]]> <p>Posted November 19, 2002 4:54 PM by Scott Janssens</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8622 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8622 Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:54:09 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #5 from Jeff Youngstrom comment from Jeff Youngstrom on 19.Nov.02 There used to be (10 years ago, maybe still) a large colony of these by Mission College just off Hwy 101 in Santa Clara, CA. I rode my bike by there going to work every day and saw them hanging around more often than not. Very cool birds. Bunches of rabbits too in those same open fields west of the main buildings.

]]> <p>Posted November 19, 2002 5:06 PM by Jeff Youngstrom</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8623 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8623 Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:06:23 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #6 from BCnielsen comment from BCnielsen on 20.Nov.02 Coincidenally, this specie also inhabited the culverts of Mesa Community College. I recall running a long feature in the paper on their presence and noting that they would attack if provoked. They are nocturnal, of course, which made them a hazard to the night class students. Makes you wonder what gets sloshed around in the irrigation system.

]]> <p>Posted November 20, 2002 8:15 AM by BCnielsen</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8650 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8650 Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:15:25 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #7 from Christopher Hatton comment from Christopher Hatton on 20.Nov.02 Scott, from typos come new words. I think we should adopt 'piction' to mean 'fake photo'. Or maybe 'fake or otherwise tampered-with photo'.

]]> <p>Posted November 20, 2002 3:57 PM by Christopher Hatton</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8670 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8670 Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:57:56 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #8 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 20.Nov.02 I think we should use it as the word for "graphic or illustrative element of unspecified variety," instead of "graphic", which is the current usage. Bugs me every time I see it. "Graphic" is an adjective, not a noun. "Piction" would be just right.

]]> <p>Posted November 20, 2002 4:49 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8672 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8672 Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:49:01 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #9 from Jane Yolen comment from Jane Yolen on 20.Nov.02 ANother great picture of burrowing owls at my photographer son's webpage: http://www.jasonstemple.com/gallerypages/burrowingowls.html

Enjoy.

Jane

]]> <p>Posted November 20, 2002 7:00 PM by Jane Yolen</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8682 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8682 Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:00:23 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #10 from Paul Riddell comment from Paul Riddell on 20.Nov.02 I've always been envious of those who have burrowing owls in their back yards. The closest I've come to them came courtesy of the Fort Worth Zoo. The FWZ has, in the back, a very interesting Texana display, which mostly centers around the opportunities for city and suburban kids to meet domesticated animals in open surroundings. However, the Zoo also has a very nice prairie display, which includes a prairie dog colony, ratlesnakes, a pair of black-footed ferrets, and (ta-dah!) burrowing owls. Now if I could just get the opportunity to _watch_ those owls burrow...

]]> <p>Posted November 20, 2002 7:18 PM by Paul Riddell</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8685 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8685 Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:18:21 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #11 from Berni Phillips Bratman comment from Berni Phillips Bratman on 20.Nov.02 We had burrowing owls a few years ago where I work. They had moved into squirrels' burrows and made it their nesting ground. They were discovered when the area was being surveyed prior to having one of those big blow-out shindigs Silicon Valley used to be famous for. The owls were an endangered species so the party had to be moved inside to the San Jose Arena (formerly the Compaq Arena and now the HP Pavilion).

Alas, they started closing off the burrows when the owls took off for a bit, making sure they wouldn't come back, so they are gone. I haven't seen the flock of swallows around that would circle the gardener as he used the riding mower recently either. We still do get the occasional duck and band of sandpipers, obviously lost.

]]> <p>Posted November 20, 2002 8:39 PM by Berni Phillips Bratman</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8689 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8689 Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:39:04 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #12 from Greg van Eekhout comment from Greg van Eekhout on 20.Nov.02 At least one Phoenix-area housing development has set aside room for burrowing owls, but how much habitat the owls lost to make room for the development, I don't know.

]]> <p>Posted November 20, 2002 9:18 PM by Greg van Eekhout</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8690 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8690 Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:18:50 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #13 from Greg van Eekhout comment from Greg van Eekhout on 20.Nov.02 Crud. Messed up the link. Correct one here.

]]> <p>Posted November 20, 2002 9:22 PM by Greg van Eekhout</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8691 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8691 Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:22:26 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #14 from Sue Mason comment from Sue Mason on 21.Nov.02 Cute.
Cats with feathers.

]]> <p>Posted November 21, 2002 7:25 AM by Sue Mason</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8703 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8703 Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:25:10 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #15 from Nancy Lebovitz comment from Nancy Lebovitz on 21.Nov.02 In re wanting a word for "graphic or illustrative element of unspecified variety": maybe "illo" does the job well enough.

]]> <p>Posted November 21, 2002 8:59 AM by Nancy Lebovitz</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8708 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8708 Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:59:29 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #16 from Karin comment from Karin on 22.Nov.02 There was a family of burrowing owls living in/under a concrete jersey barrier on the flight line at Travis Air Force Base in CA in the mid-1990s. For all I know their descendants may still be there. Would have thought the flight line too noisy and chaotic for their tastes, but they seemed happy. They are entirely too cute.

]]> <p>Posted November 22, 2002 2:03 AM by Karin</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8731 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8731 Fri, 22 Nov 2002 02:03:43 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #17 from marty grabien comment from marty grabien on 23.Nov.02 Adorable.

Jane, went to Jason's page. Terrific photos.

]]> <p>Posted November 23, 2002 5:28 PM by marty grabien</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8760 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#8760 Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:28:16 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #18 from janet kagan comment from janet kagan on 5.Dec.02 A couple of photos of the Florida burrowing owl here--http://members.aol.com/pjbowen/owls.html
Scroll down a bit for the one living in a culvert. Too cute for words! Fans of burrowing owls will enjoy Carl Hiaasen's HOOT (his first YA), fans of Carl Hiaasen's will enjoy it too. Ricky and I fought over who got to read it first; he won but only because I let him. (Darn, sorry. I can't figure out how to make that link clickable.)

]]> <p>Posted December 5, 2002 11:42 AM by janet kagan</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#13083 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#13083 Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:42:29 -0500 Burrowing owls of Yuma, Arizona -- comment #19 from dd comment from dd on 5.Mar.03 ererter dsgfdg fghtyrtyuyu

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]]> <p>Posted March 5, 2003 9:31 AM by dd</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#16559 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/001550.html#16559 Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:31:12 -0500