Pearl-spotted Owl Earrings

Sterling silver earrings with blue iolite beads. Once again, like the other bird earrings, I made this from start to finish, except for the beads which I bought.

These are two little Pearl-spotted Owls. When my folks and I would go away to game reserves, I found I had a knack for spotting the small owls, which only start coming out at a dusk when everything is silhouetted and you have to spot the game by shape. The trick is that these guys sit on stumps...and they themselves look like stumps - the silhouette looks just like a tree stump or broken branch, but an owl could be sitting on the top of it "melding" into the stump shape. Somehow, from the moving car, I could spot these things. Maybe it's my love for owls. I have always wanted a pet one and have forever been haunted by Gerald Durrell's story of keeping an owl in the attic where the owl could come and go freely, but was tame.