Owl Hunting

You have my permission to move on to another blog now if you like.  There are 56 photos of owls in this blog post, so I quite understand if you haven't the time to look.

The owls all around Birmingham are called The Big Hoot.  All the owls started off life looking like this:

without the plastic bag, of course!

These were the ones that Sandie & I found over two days in the centre of Birmingham.   They are in the order they are listed on the Trail Map rather than in the order we found them.

1. Big Brown Inky Owl

2. Jewllery Owl

3. Bejewelled Owl

4.  Nature's Growth

5. Priceless

6. One Giant Hoot for Owlkind

7. Wise Owl

8. Skyclad 

9. Delivered by Owl

10. Owl by Night

11. Under the Glow of Moonlight

12. Clash

13. Bluey

14. Dr Whoot

15. The Graduate

16. Tessallated Triangles

17. Leo

18. The Birmingham Children's Hospital Owl

19. Florence Nightin'owl

20. Dotty

21- 24 are further away from the centre so we didn't see them.

25.  Yellow - on the roof of the Custard Factory - as seen from the train

26. Beorma

27. Selfie

28. Skyline 2015

29. The Owl and the Pussycat

30. FreeRadiOwl

31. Re-Tail

32. Starlight

33.  I see a Darkness

34 Nightingale

35. Ozzy's Owl

36. Swirly Whirly Birmingham Owl-land

37. Owl Aboard!

38. Stop - rewind and come again!

39. Peacock

40. Mr. Architect

41. Owl-livia

42. You can call me Owl

43. The Oozells Owl

44. Midnight Moths

45. Percy Pertemps

46. Owlfred

47. Welcome to Birmingham

48. Owlbert

49. Wise Old Owl

50. Jack

51. TropicOwl

52. The Ship

53. Our Happy Hospit-owl

54. New Street Flyer

55. Tick-Tock

56 Unity within Diversity

57. Active Owl

58. Alf the Penguin Owl

59. Bob the Bat

60. Tea T-owl

There's a further 29 large owls to find across the city so maybe I'll go hunting again later in the month.

Which of the owl designs do you like best?

Well done if you've got this far.   Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Have you tried being a tourist in your home city?

My friend Sandie has been staying with me so she could do the workshop I talked about yesterday.

I was born in Birmingham and although I don't live there now I know the city centre quite well and it's interesting to go round it with another photographer.   There are a lot of photos in this post showing some of the things we spotted starting with Wednesday's walk round.

Outside the Jewellery Quarter Station

Key Hill Cemetery in the Jewellery Quarter

Some odd bits in the pavements (sidewalks for my US readers!)

We walked alongside the canal

We walked through the ICC (conference centre) and saw this on the wall.

We walked through Victoria Square and saw the garden that's been put in place instead of the fountain.  The large sculpture which when it was in the fountain was known locally as the 'Floozie in the Jacuzzi'.  Doesn't quite match a garden, does it?

There was this garden in the square commemorating World War 1.

And then on to the Cathedral and the Birmingham Parks entry to the Chelsea Flower Show in May where they won a Gold Medal.

And then off to the Bullring to see the bull.

Sandie really liked the Selfridges building.  I'm not very fond of it and it amazes me that it has won architectural awards.

This is a tree sculpture by St. Martin's-in-the-Bullring church.

We both liked this reflection in the windows.

On Thursday we walked in different places and looked at the reflections in windows.

I was quite taken with this bike.

I loved the shapes in this arcade.

I was fascinated to find a wildflower meadow in the middle of the road over the road tunnel.

Later we walked back alongside the canal to Brindleyplace which isn't at all where I thought it was or how I thought it would be.  I thought it was right alongside the canal but it wasn't and was a sheltered plaza.

We saw these clocks in an office building.

We went to the top of The Cube and saw this view of the canal.

Outside The Mailbox we found this giant table lamp!

And then we walked past the new buildings of New Street Station with the patterns you can see on the shiny cladding.

There are some amazing buildings in the centre of Birmingham which I haven't featured in this post.

One of the reasons we were walking round was because around Birmingham this summer we have a collection of giant owls.  Come back tomorrow to see all the ones we found.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice