One of nature’s drollest creatures, the Burrowing Owl spends each day in pantomiming, How do you do? to family, friends, and passers-by, and in eating his weight in things you wouldn’t eat your weight in, nor even his. More at home under the range than on it, he knows it’s cheaper to board than to build (even if people suspect that you have rattlesnakes) so he redecorates an old gopher hole. He will probably twist his head off if you walk around him enough times.