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To: Yaelle

Birds have a lot of oil on their feathers in order to stay water repellant. I think this is more of an oil imprint than a dust one. Kind of like a palm print if you stuck your hand on a clean window.


50 posted on 07/15/2011 7:59:07 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Choot em, Elizabeth!)
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To: Kirkwood

Oh, oil! That makes sense. Poor owl.


58 posted on 07/16/2011 10:13:06 AM PDT by Yaelle
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