Owls

I don't know much about owls.  I read somewhere that if you dream about an owl it means you're in danger!

I recall that David Letterman's show once chowed a clip of barn owls eating mice, accompanied by "Tomorrow," the song from the musical Annie.

In junior high school we read a book by Farley Mowat about a boy and his pet owls. (The title was Owls in the Family.) I think they were called Wol and Weeps.

There was an owl in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.  When I was young we had a miniature of that owl that came from a box of Shreddies or some cereal, that had a hole in the bottom so you could put it on the end of a pencil or pen.  I think it lost one of its wings.

I remember a rhyme from my youth:

There was a wise owl lived in an oak.

The more he saw, the less he spoke.

The less he spoke, the more he heard.

Why can't we be like that wise bird?