Meet Ember - a touch of magic to the skies. Ember is the same species as other barn owls seen in the UK, but he has extra melanin (pigmentation) in his feathers which makes him that gorgeous charcoal and orange! We think Ember is gorgeous!
Toasted to perfection, and absolutely gorgeous!
I love the unusual ones.
I haven’t done any reading to see if melanism has any side effects like leucism does. I’ll have to read up on that…
Some of the Masked Owls have nice colorations somewhat like this guy. We’ll have to feature some of those soon too.
oOOOo a chocolate-caramel owl! Now just need to find some graham cracker owls and a marshmallow owl.
Looking good, Ember!
Please refrain from eating the owls 😜
Awwww . . . . fine
Have you played Bugsnax?
Heh, no but it looks fun.
It’s great, but weird.
Share a gift this Giving Tuesday with Suffolk Owl Sanctuary here.
I’d always recommend you donate to your local rescue first, but if you’ve liked some of the work this charity had provided this year or can’t find who your local rescue is, these people will still appreciate whatever you would like to share.
No specific endorsement by me here, just sharing donate links for whomever happened to be in my posts today. As I said, you should fund your local rescue first.
Beautiful. I thought it was a sooty owl.
I’m looking forward to seeing more Sooties coming up in the tournament, but they are up against GHO, so I’m a little sad to see one of them get bumped right away. Sooties are awesome.
Sure, I agree, but then again it’s at least a little sad when any owl leaves the tournament…
Very true, declaring the losing owl is the hardest part of my job.
Beautiful
I can only imagine he is more amazing in person!
