Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for November 18, 2024

I love Wallace’s mum

We’ve got some barred owls out here in OR too. I love em! The best is when they sound like a laughing monkey!

Sterling as usual sleeping with his eyes open

Best mom EVER

Who gives a hoot about school when there’s a barred owl to watch.

We know where Wallace gets his love of nature from. Better go look, Wallace. Maybe the owl belongs to a Barred Bigfoot.

Whatta Mom!

From PBS:

To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their smaller cousins.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday was expected to release its final plan to prop up declining spotted owl populations in Oregon, Washington state and California. The Associated Press obtained details in advance.

The plan calls for killing up to 470,000 barred owls over three decades after the birds from the eastern U.S. encroached into the territory of two West Coast owls: northern spotted owls and California spotted owls. The smaller spotted owls have been unable to compete for food and habitat with the invaders.

In case anyone needed to be reminded of where Wallace gets his eccentricities from…

She is simply the best. And dig Seagull…

I love Wally’s mum :-))

There are learning experiences which can never take place within the classroom.

I live in London on the parkland walk. There were a couple owls nearby, I could often hear them. On night it was so loud it must have been in our garden. I regret not going to take a look.

There was a Great-horned Owl calling behind my house the other morning. I tried, but never got to see it..

You should see one with a mouse hanging out its beak!!

Wait for me! I’m coming too!

Barred owls are easy to identify by their call: “Who Cooks for You?”

Was it barred from the community?

I once saw a pilated woodpecker, a rare sighting in a town. Another time an owl flew across the car on a back road. It flew sideways and we saw it from the bottom with full wingspan, it was huge!!

Coolest Mom ever!

She is the best mom! (And I see I am far from the only person with a special fondness for barred owls.)

Barred Owls must be a pretty big deal huh?

…….the wise ole owl!!!!

Mom is a hoot.

Is it me, or is Sterling sleeping with his eyes open?

Some things are worth the trouble — the northern lights (or southern), a meteor shower, baby toads appearing all over in a mass emergence, or just hunting nightcrawlers for going fishing in the morning.

Said it before and will say it again…coolest comic mom ever. (I can’t say “coolest mom ever” because everyone knows that’s my mom of course).

Wallace has such awesome parents.

What is this owl barred from?

She is the best mom ever.

Only seen an owl once in the wild (heard them hundreds of times). It was daytime and the crows were buzzing what looked like a cat in a tree. Then the “cat” flew to a different tree.

A friend of the family had a great horned owl stuffed and mounted back in the 80’s – it was amazing to see up close and pet the fluffy feathers

Sterling has his eyes open…

Best mom once more.

Mom, as always, is totally rad !!!

The proper response!

Ha ha ha. Seagull has officially been adopted. Has his own bed.

These kids have a great mom!

The only thing I ever saw was a disbarred lawyer.

I went out for an evening walk one night a couple of years ago, here in my tiny rural-New Hampshire town, and a HUGE owl swooped down right over my head and soared off into the darkness. I don’t know what kind it was, but it was amazing. Big enough that I could hear it flapping, and close enough above my head that I felt the breeze of it passing and got a whiff of a dusty, feathery scent.

Coolest. Mom. EVER!

The seagull is sleeping in the house?

What is the difference between bared owls and taverned owls? Markings? Jacket potatoes? Pretzels?

I love how this strip has both the parents be a little crazy too sometimes, not just the kids. Always fun to see those “I see where he gets it” moments XD

Mom has her priorities straight…..super cool moments need to be experienced.

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In our area (Mid-north Indiana), the Barred Owl is pushing out the larger Great Horned Owl. The Barred Owl is an aggressive bird, even for a raptor.

Seagull has his own pillow- cute.

Best mom. Seeing a Barred owl it’s a learing experience Wallace can’t miss.

That would be my wife too.

I want Wallace’s parents

This reminds me of my mom

If you succeed in catching an owl, and cooking it and eating it. You will have owls in your bowels.