Owl

It's rained for several days straight. We've gotten about eight inches since this rain began. We finally got a break from the rain so we took the opportunity to go to the lake. On our way we saw an owl sitting on a fence post hunting food. I was lucky to have the camera with me and got a picture before it flew away.

"We are all visionaries, 
and what we see is our soul in things."
 Henry Amiel

I can always find what I'm looking for on the internet!

Below is a great commentary on owls in the Bible.

http://ww2.netnitco.net/~legend01/owl.htm

Because he is a solitary night bird, the owl has come to represent the forsaken. Job in his affliction calls himself "a companion to owls" (Job 30:29). He has been abandoned by the light and makes a fearful noise because of his sufferings. The solitary bird is assumed to be lonely and Job longs for the companionship of God which he once enjoyed.

The forsaken Christ says, "I am like an owl of the desert" (Psa 102:6 NKJV). He has been abandoned by the Father, the crowds, and even his disciples. This psalm often bears the caption: "A prayer of the afflicted when he is overwhelmed, & pours out his sighing before the Lord." Adam Clarke calls it, "The prayer of the captives in Babylon when ...they were almost worn out with oppression, cruelty, & distress."

The owl is associated with ruins - places that have been utterly abandoned and are unfit for human habitation. The complete ruin of the cities of Israel's enemies is emphasized by the following statements: "the owl and the raven shall dwell in it (Isa 34:11 NKJV); it shall be an habitation of dragons and a court for owls" (Isa 34:13); "the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation" (Jer 50: 39). 

Since the owl is a bird of ill omen, its voice among the ruins warns future generations that herein lies the wrath of God. Micah, forseeing the punishment of Israel, says, "Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls" (Micah 1:8).

Christianity saw in the owl a symbol of Christ, who came to those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death (Luke 1:79). This is the case with owls in pictures of the Passion. Early mystics believed the owl had a luminous substance in its eyes which dissolved the darkness, giving it excellent night vision. In the same way, the light of Christ was said to dissolve the darkness of this world and give a pure and good direction. The Christ-owl may be found with the cross on its breast or head.