Lady Grayl: Owl with a Mission

"This is the story of a man and his owl. But what a man and what an owl! The owl is one of our planet's most beautiful and elusive beings, an enchanting spook, a feathered spirit from some ancient world. The man is Robert Nero, his name synonymous with that of the Great Gray Owl, his love affair with the species spanning twenty-five years. For me, a non-professional adrift in a sea of biologists, it is heartening to find in Dr Nero not just the able scientific mind but also a sense of wonder, undiminished by the years. Perhaps it is the mortality of all living things that makes them exquisite to him, for he writes of their brief beauty in poetry and prose. His words remind us of joys we once knew, of worlds to which we have grown blind. What a privilege it is to share a time on Earth with a man like this, and to call him friend." -- Katherine McKeever, The Owl Foundation, Vineland, 1994.Nero, Robert W. is the author of 'Lady Grayl: Owl with a Mission', published 1995 under ISBN 9780920474945 and ISBN 0920474942.