The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar by Martin Windrow

Upon receiving his owl, he then took her into a London-area apartment building where pets were specifically prohibited, hiding her from the landlord for about three years before moving into the countryside. He found someone who could give him a fledgling tawny owl born of captive parents and completed the necessary official application and assurance papers. When he wanted an owl to live with him, British conservation laws had already forbad capturing wild species for pets. He needed a bit of distance and perspective before he could write openly about his subject, which he has in The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Living with a Tawny Owl. Martin Windrow considered writing a book about his owl Mumble for over twenty years. Windrow offers a poignant and unforgettable reminiscence of his charmed years with his improbable pet, as well as an unexpected education in the paleontology, zoology, and sociology of owls.The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Living with a Tawny Owl by Martin Windrow why?' my best answer was simply 'Why not?'' I tried to answer patiently, but I found it hard to come up with a short reply to the direct question 'Yes, but.

When new acquaintances learned that they were talking to a book editor who shared a seventh-floor flat in a South London tower block with a Tawny Owl, some tended to edge away, rather thoughtfully.

In The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar, 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 the grievous sense of loss when Mumble nearly escapes.Īs Windrow writes: 'Mumble was so much a part of my life in those days that the oddity of our relationship seldom occurred to me, and I only thought about it when faced with other people's astonishment. 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. Martin Windrow was a war historian with little experience with pets when he adopted an owl the size of a corncob. The story of an odd couple-a British military historian and the Tawny Owl with whom he lived for fifteen years The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar E-Kitap Açıklaması

The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar by Martin Windrow