The screech owl was tinier than Pippin Frisbie-Calder expected, which made him all the more perfect.
Then he winked at her. Technically, it’s more of a blink that happens when an owl’s eyelids fall out of sync, but Frisbie-Calder didn’t care.
To her, it was a wink, and she lifted her camera just in time to catch it through the habitat window in the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine’s raptor enclosure…