The cute owlets have been decorated by schools, community groups and charities

 

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Pupils from Weston All Saints Primary School painting 'RenewabOWL' with Bath artist Laura Fearn.  The owlet was very kindly donated to the school by the environmental charity Restore Our Planet and was perched outside The Egg Theatre this summer.

Owlets nested across Bath this summer and will soon be flocking to the Hoot Farewell weekend!

The owlets were decorated by hundreds of children and community groups who have enjoyed painting and decorating the super-sized mini-owls!

Owls of Bath event sponsor Curo donated an owlet to the Combe Down Primary school

 

A group of artistic pupils from Twerton Infant School have painted Twert-Twoo, which was donated by the Bath Percent Club and was displayed in Bath Library this summer

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For 2008’s King Bladud’s Pig trail 40,000 trail maps led pig fans on a city-wide journey of exploration.

There are around 200 species of owl.
The largest is Blakiston’s fish owl (Japan, China, Siberia)

A Little Owl with an olive branch appeared on a Greek silver tetradrachm coin from 500 BC and a 5th Century BC bronze statue of the Greek goddess of wisdom, Athena, shows her holding a Little Owl.

Little Owls were introduced into Britain from Europe during the late 1880s to control garden pests.
There are thought to be 5,700 pairs in the UK.

In 2008 the King Bladud’s Pigs auction raised over £200,000 for charity and 16,000 pig fans came to say their ‘final farewells’.

Many owls have asymmetrical ears that vary in size and are at different heights on their heads. This allows them to better pinpoint where their prey is.

“It was with sheer delight that I rounded a corner on my first ever visit to … where they were filming Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and saw a line of big, grey, fluffy, bewildered-looking owls blinking back at me.” JK Rowling

My pet owl will soon turn 180.
He’s not old, he just has a bad neck. (Hoot!)

Little Owls love sunbathing! You can spot them basking in sunshine on their favourite perches during the winter months in parks and rural villages. On a sunny day, look out for Little Owls on barn roofs, poles and fence posts.

A group of owls is called a parliament.
(Of course, most owls are solitary!)

In 2008, a herd of 100 King Bladud’s Pigs descended on Bath to take part in one of the UK’s first public art sculpture trails.

Owls do not have spherical eyes, they have tube eyes (providing better depth perception and allowing them to see prey from great distances. Their close vision is not as clear.)

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