He covers the basic necessities of owl ownership: explaining building her enclosure, complete with "Double-Reciprocating Owl Valve" diet and dealing with "a fair amount of owl crap."Drawing from diary entries, Windrow tracks Mumble's developments like changes in calls and flight skills and the turmoil of molting season. Historian Windrow (The French Foreign Legion) reminisces on 16 years living with "Mumble," his pet tawny owl, and provides a scientific and historical background on the charming creatures. Windrow offers a poignant and unforgettable reminiscence of his charmed years with his improbable pet, as well as an unexpected education in the paleontology, zoology, and sociology of owls. why?' my best answer was simply 'Why not?'" I tried to answer patiently, but I found it hard to come up with a short reply to the direct question 'Yes, but. When new acquaintances learned that they were talking to a book editor who shared a seventh-floor flat in a South London tower block with a Tawny Owl, some tended to edge away, rather thoughtfully.
In The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar, Windrow recalls with wry humor their finer moments as well as the reactions of incredulous neighbors, the awkwardness of buying Mumble unskinned rabbit at Harrods Food Hall, and the grievous sense of loss when Mumble nearly escapes.Īs Windrow writes: "Mumble was so much a part of my life in those days that the oddity of our relationship seldom occurred to me, and I only thought about it when faced with other people's astonishment.
Adorable but with knife-sharp talons, Mumble became Windrow's closest, if at times unpredictable, companion, first in a South London flat and later in the more owl-friendly Sussex countryside. Martin Windrow was a war historian with little experience with pets when he adopted an owl the size of a corncob. The story of an odd couple-a British military historian and the Tawny Owl with whom he lived for fifteen years
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