title: The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Living with a Tawny Owl
author:  Martin Windrow 
description: The sweetly smiling older gent on this books jacket is seen inside in photos, too, but they depict a much-younger man, often with a little, stern owl perched on his shoulder. The tawny owl, Mumble, met her end too soon, and thus it took Windrow (The Last Valley, 2005) many years to put aside his sadness and pull together his notebooks and photos depicting their 15-year owl-man relationship, living together in England. Windrow has an endearing, entertaining voice, not without a sense of humor. He not only describes his relationship with the little owl (love at first sight) but also gives owl history, the species contemporary existence, precautions, and more. Windrows journal entries from the time are scattered throughout, and they reveal his careful attention to Mumbles learning to speak and fly and adapt to her unusual life. Containing many photos as well as Christa Cooks beautifully detailed sketches, this is a gentle, touching love story that will appeal to all pet owners, not just those fond of tawny owls, which Windrow describes as something like cats that can fly. --Eloise Kinney
zlib_text: “Yuk! Selana, I almost ate a bug!” Tasslehoff howled.
  
  Seeing the distress on his brown and black sparrow face, Selana spoke directly
  to his mind again. “You’re acting on instinct,” she told him. “Remember,
  you’re a bird now.”
  
  “How can I forget?” he said. The thrill of flying was better than he had ever
  imagined, and he had imagined it a lot in his short life. Whenever he had
  thought about it in the past, though, he had pictured himself in his own body,
  flapping his arms, or in the body of some majestic bird of prey, like an owl.
  
  Suddenly he felt heavier, more massive. The wind had not changed, but it
  tossed him around much less. His wings had tremendous power, his vision was
  unbelievably keen. He spotted a mouse skittering among some barrels in an
  alley and circled, watching the succulent tidbit going about its business,
  unaware it was being watched. Tas understood then why he felt differently; he
  had become an owl!
  
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