Saturday, February 28, 2009

Great Horned Owl at Flagler College

I was in St. Augustine near the fountain in front of the Lightner Museum (former Alcazar Hotel) when I spotted this great horned owl across the street at Flagler College. The bird flew to several of the windows on the upper floors of the school where he would stop and peer inside for a while before moving on to another window. He eventually made it up to a chimney where he sat for a while before flying off.

It was a very unique sight, and was a bit Harry Potter-like with an owl flying around a castle-like school in broad daylight. Maybe the owl was delivering a letter to a student...

2 comments:

Rick Kilby said...

Awesome! perhaps it's part of the faculty there...

Maire said...

I remember him. We would hear hooting all the time. I think my friends and I named him Harold. I wonder if he's still there?