Owl

She began to back up until her back pressed gently against a large tree. A sharp hoot from an owl caused her to duck and cover her head. She peered up from in between her arms to see the large brown owl staring at her. It had wide yellow eyes that seemed to shine like two large moons*. She couldn’t take her eyes off of the owl’s. It gave her another hoot before flapping its wings and ascending deeper…

brother named Fero. Fero was four years old. One day, Leva’s dad asked Leva and Fero to go to the forest and pick some berries for lunch. But after a little while, Leva got lost and couldn’t find her brother. The only thing she could see and hear were owls hooting, wolves howling, and the purple, blue, and green light. When she came closer, she was going to touch the glowing light, but when she touched it, it sucked her in. She found herself in something that looked like outer space. She did…

organisms that exists in the Los Angeles area is the owl. Southern California is home to several different species of owls. The three main species are the western screech owl, the great horned owl, and the North American barn owl. They dwell in various types of landscapes, including mountain and valley areas, the desert, as well as city areas populated mainly by humans. The owl that I want to concentrate on is the great horned owl. The owl is classified as a Eukarya because it has a true…

features and devices along with form to explore various themes. This is evident in her two poems “Barn Owl” and “The Glass Jar” where through potent symbolism and aesthetic linguistic elements, Harwood delves into the transition from childhood naivety to the harsh realities of life and experience. The “Barn Owl” is a story of how a child steals their father’s gun in excitement to shoot a barn owl and instead is forced to understand the horrors of taking a life. “The Glass Jar” is similar in this…

HABITAT: According to the website the northern hawk owl lives in coniferous or mixed forests near open areas in Canada and the United States. It nests in cavities including old woodpecker nests and hollow tops of broken tree trunks. DIET According to the website the hawk owl eats mostly small mammals especially voles. It also eats some birds especially in winter. The northern hawk owl can detect prey by sight at a distance of up to 800 meters. It is thought to detect prey primarily by…

Mary Oliver is overwhelmed and in awe with the beauty of nature and conveys this through the passage “Owls” with apprehensive diction and first person perspective making the reader feel like they are right alongside her as she makes observations about the wild owls, their prey, and the peaceful flowers she sees. This apprehension is added to through the reverence Mary seems to have for the owls and the fear conveyed through that reverence in the first three quarters of the passage. In the…

Great Grey Owl lives in North America. In the harvest of timber it lives in dense boreal and coniferous forest. Often adjoining open areas like bogs, muskegs ,or meadows. They breed in north america . DESCRIPTION: According to the website all about birds.org, ‘adult owls look like this they have a flat face with large rounded head and grey face. They have wide yellow eyes with dark circles around them’.The Great Gray Owl’s upper part has dark streaks and under part light steaks. This owl…

Harwood’s Barn Owl At the beginning of the poem it is daybreak and all the members of the house are still asleep except for the child. The child, in the poem, is portrayed as both good and bad, a fiend and an angel. The father is shown as a powerful figure in the child’s life with evidence shown in the phrase “old No-Sayer”. This means ‘the one who opposes’ and this confirms that he could be the one that makes the decisions, decides yes or no, in the family. In the second stanza, the father…

imagination while simultaneously exposing the children down new avenues of literacy, vocabulary and language. I believe that illustrator of Owl Moon, John Schoenherr, has managed to create simple yet beautiful images for this story while simultaneously complimenting the rich literary text, making it very worthy of the coveted Caldecott award. The children’s picture book, Owl Moon, portrays many characteristics of a Caldecott deserving picture book.…

In the article “Talking to the Owls and Butterflies”, John Fire Lame Deer discusses how Indians and Whites see nature from completely different aspects. Indians embrace nature. The visual image I chose shows all aspects of nature that Lame Deer states Indians appreciate: the peaceful outdoors, the wildlife within it, and the Great Spirit (624). The white man, on the other hand, looks at a forest and sees raw resources to build a luxury home. He takes what once was a wildlife animal and turns it…