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From: John Layton [
Sent: Thursday, 10 September 2015 4:40 PM
To: Canberra Birds <>
Subject: [canberrabirds] Poetic Powl
At about 07:00 on a cold, cold morning some three weeks ago I took a U.S. visitor to look for the Turner Powerful Owl. After a 10-minute search we had a good view of T.P.O.
and its usual Brushtail prey.
Yesterday Cyrus, now back home in smoky Washington state, sent me the following excerpt from a poem about Arctic creatures which we thought is equally evocative of the Powerful
Owl:
to hunch and spread
his wings and tail and fall
silent as moonlight
upon the quick hot
frenzy in that fur
John Layton
Holt.
