Night of the Owl

Was expecting a wolf to howl to the full moon on top of the hill.  But all we hear is the hooting of the owl, the same owl that’s been hooting night after night.

It’s because we don’t have wolves in our area. They all had been hunted down or moved away when humans took over their lands many moons ago. But despair not, quite a few had been sighted near the Pyrinees and near Madrid in the last few years, after 60 years’ absence.  They had not gone extinct as thought.

Here’s hoping that they will find their way back here, to the land where their ancestors used to call home. Food is in abundance in the forms of wild boars and rabbits in the area.

I think the owl is calling for the wolves to return home.