13 thoughts on “Eagle Owl”

  1. Probably the last thing Monty Mouse will ever see. i owe him one for the blizzard débàcle of last year.

    Mwahahaha!

    OZ

  4. Ah, dear Brave Monty Mouse!

    Get over it, OZ, he’s very quick on his feet and it’s really no disgrace. 🙂

    Absolutely stunning clip, Soutie. Amazing photography and such detail.

  5. Reminds me of a close encounter with a red kite intent on retrieving a pheasant from the middle of the lane. Bad timing, I happened to be driving along it when he swooped. My whole windscreen was full of red kite, and I didn’t appreciate the beauty of the movement at all, I was too busy trying to stop and avoid a collision with said bird.

    He pulled out of the dive in time, or my brakes are quite good. 🙂

  6. My comment was ackshully prompted by a poor scan of a photocopy of a photocopy I took from the wall of a Coltishall pub many years ago.

    😀

    OZ

  9. Morning all, thanks for the explanation(s), I was about to change Oz’s comment #1 to read buzzard ’till I read further down the page! 🙂

  10. Thanks Soutie.
    FYI, the music, which of course was popularised by Kubrick’s film, ‘2001 – A Space Odyssey’, is a fanfare by Richard Strauss called ‘Sunrise’, premiered in 1896.

  11. Yup! “Einleitung, oder Sonnenaufgang” to “Also sprach Zarathustra”
    I bet every Charioteer knew that. Hands up those who didn’t. 🙂

    It pops up in Trivia Nights quite often.

  12. And of course “Kubrick’s film” was based on a story by Arthur C Clarke, and co-written with him.

    That’s a frequent triv question, too. 🙂

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