Looped

We've all heard the old tale about how an owl can turn his head all the way around.

Well, have you ever seen one do this?

Of course you haven't because you are not a world renowned bird photographer.  This takes many seconds of patience and anticipatory skill to capture a wild animal in this frenetic state.

This owl lives inside the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans.  Just after I shot this he swooped down and plucked a toddler from the arms of a screaming mother.  He then dropped the child into the exhibit with a 30 foot anaconda.  The snake rose up to engulf the child in a stranglehold, but the child in a Herculean feat ripped the head from the snake and grabbed the writihng snake body and began hosing down the horrified onlookers in a fog of snake blood while cursing at people in Latvian.

I would have to say it was the greatest day of my life. Too bad I didn't get any pictures of the action though.  But my skills are in birds