Owl leaves imprint on Kendal woman's window (wow, very cool)

BBC ^

[nuconvert]

A woman returned to her Cumbrian home to find a near perfect imprint of an owl on her window.

The bird had apparently crashed into the window of Sally Arnold's Kendal home, leaving the bizarre image - complete with eyes, beak and feathers.

Experts said the silhouette was left by the bird's "powder down" - a substance protecting growing feathers.

Mrs Arnold said she could find no sign of the owl, so assumed it had flown off without serious injury.

She said: "Our first concern was for the welfare of what we suspected was an owl and we opened up the window to check if it was still around.

"Fortunately, there was no sign of the bird and we can only assume that it had flown away probably suffering from a headache."

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Interesting, but seems way too good to be real.

[Hot Tabasco]

If you look very, very close, you can see an image of the Virgin Mary...........I’d put it up for sale on Ebay.

[nuconvert]

It does seem way too detailed.
I’ll keep an eye out for updates on the story.

[Political Junkie Too]

Isn't that a Windex ad on TV?

No, wait...

It's the birds that are yukking it up, and it's the stupid white male that walks into the window.

-PJ

[mewzilla]

But it was posted today :)

[nuconvert]

lol. I’m not a Harry Potter fan, and I didn’t know he had an owl.

[AZLiberty]

At our old house in Phoenix we had a huge picture window onto the back yard. Although we never saw evidence of an owl, on that window we would commonly get “dove prints”. Almost always the dove would fly away, surprised but apparently uninjured.

[raybbr]

Total fake. Any bird hitting the glass would have folded its wings on impact not spread them. Also, what left the imprint? Was the owl covered with flour? What would make the eyes so perfectly round.

It's a fake...

[piytar]

To those who think this is too detailed: I once ran into a large black bird at 65 mph when driving cross country. It left a very detailed imprint like that. (It however did not survive.)

[SJSAMPLE]

Why?
If the glass was clear, would the bird be expecting the impact?

[Two Kids' Dad]

Yeah, because all white males are stupid. TV teaches us that. And all rich people are bad and frame poor people for their crimes. And all terrorists are white males, too.

[Catphish]

Experts said the silhouette was left by the bird’s “powder down” - a substance protecting growing feathers.

[Pharmboy]

Yep...just saw it in 3D. Excellent.

[HerrBlucher]

I think Fluffy the cat was sitting in the window and the owl went in for dinner only to find at the last second about the window, put on the brakes but smashed in anyway. However, I have seen many birds hit windows and I have never seen one put on the brakes first.....hmmmmmmm. Then again, the owl would naturally be putting on the brakes to grab the cat so maybe the window was not a factor at all.

This will be psychologically damaging to the owl though, he will always remember how painful and humiliating it was and might be very hesitant in his later hunting.

One thing is for sure, this event was certainly not a hoot for the owl, though likely was for the cat.

[Kirkwood]

Many bird imprints here...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/552462@N20/

Real or not?

[Bullish]

It’s a white owl.... We used to smoke ‘em.

Seriously though, that would be really creepy coming at you.

[Iscool]

I dunno — to get that image the owl would have to flying forward while oriented vertically.

May have instituted the back-stroke at the last second before impact...

[goat granny]

On the farm we had birds break their necks flying into our 3 season porch. Most were found dead underneath the window...Heard one loud bang one day and found a yellow wing flicker laying under the window...when I went to pick it up, its toes latched onto my finger and wouldn't let go. It had just knocked itself unconscious...i carried it around the yard for a few minutes than put it in the hollow of the old maple tree in the front yard. It laid there for a few minutes and then flew away...the larger the bird the more likely it is to survive crashing into a window...

We figured out it was usually after we cleaned the windows. soooooo, good excuse to not clean the storm windows...its saved many a birds life...A few of the birds I had to look up in a bird book.....

[SuziQ]

"... we can only assume that it had flown away probably suffering from a headache."

Ya think?

[B4Ranch]

One of my Dad’s homes had half a dozen pheasants fly into the front room window almost every summer. The majority of them broke their necks. They became supper and dry fly fishing hooks.