Epcot Flower & Garden 2017, first visit

Posted on by Ian C.

We tried to “beat the rush” and visited Epcot today rather than this weekend, with this years Flower & Garden festival just started:

 

There’s a lot of Butterfly theming this year:

Including some “chalk art” on the ground which had people standing / posing on it for photographs. Amazing to look at the side image and the “proper” front image – no doubt those people would seem to be flying!

 

It’s getting harder every year to tell the difference between the Flower & Garden Festival, and the Food & Wine event – there were food / drink stalls all around World Showcase, and long queues at a few of them.

Owl close-ups, and chicks

Posted on by Ian C.

This morning “Daddy” Great Horned Owl was in a tree at the edge of the lake near our home, allowing me the chance to take some great close-up photos

 

I took some of “Mummy” Owl on the nest, too:

What I only realized tonight, looking through these pictures, is that there’s two white fluffy chicks in the nest! The last picture is cropped closer and you should be able to spot hints of beak and eyes in the two white fluff patches under the parent owl!

 

I took a couple more photos this evening at Sunset, apparently at “the changing of the guard” – Daddy watching over the chicks while Mummy spread her wings for a while. Again, you can see the fluffy chicks in the nest: