This New Year's day evening, about 12 minutes after dusk (which was at 16:02) Lesley and I saw two Tawny owls, first, like before, we heard them calling to each other over several minutes, the sound grew louder until a very large tawny owl flew down towards us, I think it was the one we saw before, shortly after followed by another, slightly smaller one, this owl we saw twice, then they went silent and we lost sight of them, what a great start to 2015! I also had the pleasure of bumping into my niece Rosie and her friends in the woods, London is like an idyllic village sometimes!
I was trying to articulate the significance of seeing owls, and struggled, until I read this, which sums it up so well, only the quote below is about wrens, the king of the birds (as the name implies in many languages apparently):
"The wren symbolised wisdom and divinity. It is difficult to actually see a wren. At New Year it is said that the apprentice Druid would go out by himself into the countryside in search of hidden wisdom. If he found a wren he would take that as a sign that he would be blessed with inner knowledge in the coming year. Finding a creature small and elusive to the point of invisibility was a metaphor for finding the elusive divinity within all life". (From The White Goddess)
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