The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Living with a Tawny Owl (Hardcover) by Martin Windrow

from GeoffSC

The intimately documated life with a tawny owl. A fascinating read.

from trinker

It started out slow and dry, but I found myself enjoying the last 3/4 of the book.

from Corduroy7

This is a lovely memoir of an Englishman's remembrances of his days living with a tawny owl he named Mumble. Heartwarming. There were a few paragraphs read lightly as I didn't need to delve as deep into the skeletal details of owls and statistics offered but it didn't deter my reading or apprecia...

from tjsjohanna

The best parts of this book revolve around Mr. Windrow's day to day experiences living with Mumble. His descriptions about her behavior and habits give the reader a clear picture of what it was like to have an owl as a pet. The chapters that detail more general info on tawny owls are less interes...

from janerawoof

Delightful memoir in breezy, casual style. The author, a military historian, has fashioned a narrative about his adopting an owl as a pet. He fails to raise Wellington, a Little Owl, but is very successful in raising Mumble, a female Tawny Owl. She comes to him as a weeks'-old fledgling and they ...