Owls at Blackwell's, Oxford

A barn owl named "Misty" and another owl named "Acorn" and their handlers, at Blackwell's bookstore in Oxford, UK, the day of the release of Harry Potter book 7.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Oxford
• bookstore
• owls
• Harry Potter

[m33tar]

To the commenters below: these owls had been brought to the Hereford Owl Rescue. As I recall, they had sustained serious injuries, and were unable to survive on their own in the wild; as a consequence of their prolonged stay at the facility, they had become quite tame. Thus they were employed as educational owls, and they both very much loved their handlers.

I don't believe owning an owl is encouraged anywhere.

[Symos]

Barn owls are such beautiful creatures.

[FoolyCoolyMabase]

"...dude, check out all these boooooks..."

[XantinovaX]

oh my gosh what a sweet face <3 <3

[darkxaur]

Simon Cowell disliked this video.

[ajbsb69]

Awww, the second Owl is like, "What's goin on?.." :)

[StabbyMcButterPants]

Owls are by far quite dumb birds, but, they make up for it in hunting skill. They're like a shark, They kill very, very well. Everything about an owl is made to stealthily creep onto it's prey and crush it with their enormous talons. :)

[Bibushka66]

0:01 OMG! A PANIC LOOK AT THE OTHER SIDE!! OMG! I NEARLY GOT A HEART ATTACK THAT WAS SOO AWESOME!

[Ulrich1943]

@Symos damn straight M8

[verticalsmurf]

Afterthought - unless they are trained birds used to all that.

[verticalsmurf]

'Are they disoriented by being out in the daytime?' Probably not, though they may bedisoriented by being in a book store, with colours, smells and sounds that they have never encountered before. Plus I don't think owls are used to being in enclosed spaces.

[spacejamzilla2015]

Its soren!!!