The Monument Square Wilderness

Owl in Tree
Originally uploaded by Paul, The Eighth Deadly Sin.

So my buddy Paul flickred it, and Sally of Port City Studios blogged it, and dozens of other Portlanders gaped at and photographed it, but your self-proclaimed field guide to the inner-city wilderness was in the wrong inner city* when a barred owl occupied a tree in Monument Square this past weekend. I am sorry for letting you down.

*The wildlife watch from a weekend spent in Boston's South End: a few boor-ing Canadian geese plotting their non-migratory winter invasion.