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The owl who liked sitting on Caesar, living with a tawny owl, Martin Windrow ; illustrations by Christa Hook

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Label

The owl who liked sitting on Caesar, living with a tawny owl, Martin Windrow ; illustrations by Christa Hook

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The owl who liked sitting on Caesar

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

858159375

Responsibility statement

Martin Windrow ; illustrations by Christa Hook

Sub title

living with a tawny owl

Summary

The story of an odd couple: a British military historian and the Tawny Owl with whom he lived for fifteen years. Adorable but with knife-sharp talons, Mumble became Windrow's closest, if at times unpredictable, companion, first in a South London flat and later in the more owl-friendly Sussex countryside. Windrow recalls with wry humor their finer moments as well as the reactions of incredulous neighbors, the awkwardness of buying Mumble unskinned rabbit at Harrods Food Hall ... and an unexpected education in the paleontology, zoology, and sociology of owls

Table Of Contents

A note on owls -- Introduction -- Man meets owl : man loses owl : man meets his one true owl -- Owls : the science bit, and the folklore -- The stowaway on the seventh floor -- The private life of the tawny owl -- Mumble in her pride -- The driver's manual -- Mumble's day -- Mumble's year -- Real trees and free-range mice -- Departure

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Living with a tawny owl

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