Life is more fun with travel. And cheese. Mostly photographs of various awesome stuff, and some arty bits. And Endeavour fangirling. Just a little bit.
This owl is performing a behavior known as a rouse! Birds do this only when comfortable as it creates noise and motion, making their position obvious to potential predators. It releases tension and shakes loose feathers, dust, and dander off of their bodies
funniest thing in the lord of the rings is how no one can kill gollum because whenever they get close they're like "oh my god he's so pathetic and ugly i can't bear to fucking look at him. jesus christ." so they just imprison him and then he slips through the fucking bars like a looney tunes character. and this happens multiple times.