Wednesday 12 September 2012

High Desert Museum

The High Desert Museum south of Bend sits in a pine forest and has both indoor and outdoor exhibits. The birds and animals (a river otter and lynx) have been injured and cannot be released back into the wild, so now have a home at the museum. We were just in time for the raptor talk, as well as one on the river otter. We saw a Harris hawk, and a small screech owl.
While he talked, the handler fed the owl bits of quail: "his favourite!" from a leather pouch on his belt.
Outside, the thing that captivated me the most was a sculpture of a mare and foal, made entirely of barbed wire! It was hard to get a good photo of it, as the sun was right behind it, so I took many, from all directions.

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