'morning folks
Great pick Sam and well done B/clues, Papa, Roamin and Ahjay. Nice trying everybody else.
Now, with great skill and after astounding thought -
DJPT +189.13
.... hope Margie notices
To everybody - good luck with your pinning tonight and hoping all have a happy and safe weekend.
dubps. I enjoy reading the fact trivia at the bottom of Hello's posts. Copying, I'll try to close my future posts with a piece of Owl Trivia.
(I did have a 'close encounter' in the backyard with a Powerful Owl about 3 years ago. It was standing on the grass and I had no idea what it was but the bloody thing was as tall as my waist and looked like some sort of muscle-bound hawk. I was scared of it! It was frightened by me.
I was in a rented place, the paling fence was 6ft high and there wasn't enough yard room for the BEAST to get a run-up and liftoff and over. It found a gap in the (old and falling-to-bits palings)and just shouldered its way through into the adjoining parkland. I spent the rest of the morning on the i/net finding out was it was and reading about them. Fascinating reading.)
Mine was a lot thicker in the body and head than this one from Wikipedia. The dead possum should give an idea of the bird's size.
Here's another one -The powerful owl has a long tail and a small head, lending it an atypical silhouette for an owl and imparting a more hawk-like appearance than any other large owl. The protruding bill and distinct brow ridges enhance the hawk-like appearance of the species.[2] The facial disc is ill-defined. The upperparts are a dark grey-brown colour, mottled and barred with whitish. The underparts are white with bold grey-brown V-shaped barring. The tail has six narrow white bars contrasting with grey-brown. This species has large yellow eyes, with greyish feathering down to the base of the toes and feet of a dull yellow color. They are aptly named, with very powerful and heavy claws.[3] This owl is the largest species of the "hawk owl" group found in much of Asia and the Australasian region, all included in the genus Ninox. It can be considered, along with its sister species the rufous owl (Ninox rufa), as Australia's analogue to the genus Bubo.[3]
.This species measures 45 to 65 cm (18 to 26 in) in length and spans 112 to 135 cm (44 to 53 in) across the wings. Unlike in a vast majority of owl species, the male is slightly larger than the female on average. Body mass in males has been reported at 0.99 to 2.22 kg (2.2 to 4.9 lb), with 13 males averaging 1.45 kg (3.2 lb), while females can weigh from 1.04 to 1.6 kg (2.3 to 3.5 lb), with an average in 9 females of 1.25 kg (2.8 lb).[4][5][6] Among all the owls in the world, the powerful owl is the ninth longest from bill-to-tail, the tenth heaviest and the eighth longest winged.[7] Its body mass is about the same on average as the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), but it has a proportionately much longer tail and wings than that species. The wing chord length further illustrates slight sexual dimorphism in favor of the male, with the male measuring 397 to 434 mm (15.6 to 17.1 in) and the female measuring 381 to 410 mm (15.0 to 16.1 in). The tail can be 280 mm (11 in) or more in length, the fifth longest of any owl with only the great grey (Strix nebulosa) and ural owls (Strix uralensis) having proportionately longer tails. As a relatively geographically restricted species, there are no subspecies and no known geographic variation in the powerful owl.[8] In comparison to the barking owl (Ninox connivens), it is much larger and lacks that species' white-spotted smoky-brown coloration on the upperparts and dark grey to rusty streaks on a whitish background on the underside.
