Give a hoot!

One of Amalia's very few unfortunate habits is her love of wasting the camera battery by turning it on, and off, on, and off over and over until the only picture we get of the awesome time we had a Dolinger farm was of the guy holding the owl. This was our 5th year going to the farm (the first year we went was when the twins were just under a year old!) and it was super.
Domingo was totally wowed, rapt if you will, by the raptor display. SOAR (Save Our American Raptors) brought a horned owl, a peregrine falcon, and a kestrel to the farm to show people, and talk about their organization that saves and rehabilitates wounded birds of prey. It was really fascinating. The owl in this picture is apparently really really small, and her wings and bones are bent because she was kept by a person who found her when she was a fledgling and didn't know what to feed her so she was malnourished and got rickets. All of the "teaching" animals can no longer be reintroduced into the wild for one reason or another. It was a really neat part of a really great day!