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Artemis (artemis201@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 11:10:33 JST Artemis

Hi folks,
So my sister is a zookeeper and takes care of the birds. She often sends pictures.
This is Baked Beans. He is a baby screech owl and is being raised for the zoo's ambassador bird program.
I would die for Beans.
#BakedBeansOwl #owls #screechowls #zoo
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1. A very small, unbelievably cute screech owl baby, maybe 5 or 6 inches tall. He's old enough that his feathers have recently come in but he's still developing his adult coloration. He has enormous dark eyes and a light brown mask around them. His belly is a wavy pattern of white and light brown. You can't see it, but his back is a little darker, the color of baked beans, which gave him his name. He sits in the corner of a painted cinder block room on top of towels on the floor, with a water bowl next to him
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  Artemis (artemis201@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 08:46:30 JST Artemis
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  Beans on a hand, for scale reference. He is just too darn cute.
  #BakedBeansOwl #owl #owls #screechowl
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  1. Beans the owl is now sitting on someone's hand in a meeting room. He's slightly larger than the hand would be if it were held up vertically. He has a small leather tie attached to his leg which is also wrapped around the hand's pinky. He is looking inquisitively at something to the top right of the camera.
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  Artemis (artemis201@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 11:11:03 JST Artemis
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  Hi folks. Would you like more #BakedBeansOwl content? Because good news! We have more Beans pictures! He's about a month older in this picture and losing some of his baby appearance.
  Beans is fierce! Beans is majestic! Beans is maybe 7 inches tall!
  Don't mess with Baked Beans.
  #owl #owls #screechowl #screechowls #zoo
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  1. The tiny screech owl, Baked Beans, sitting on a horizontal pole covered in fake grass. He is staring angrily at the camera. He has very large dark eyes with golden rings around the edges. His face feathers look like he has white eyebrows and is glaring angrily. His head is an orangy tan, and there's a dark line of brown ringing his neck. His front is mostly white with dark brown streaks.
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  Artemis (artemis201@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 11:11:04 JST Artemis
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  For more Beans the Owl content, follow #BakedBeansOwl. I'll post more pics on this thread as I get them (though we'll probably see a lot in the next week or so. I've got a few months backlog)
  Also keep an eye out for other fun bird posts. The zoo also has a wonderful Tawny Frogmouth that I adore, and a baby flamingo that goes on walks around the zoo.
  Plus I have a bunch of pictures of a baby barn owl they raised this spring. I'll try to attach them here or at least let you know the hashtag
  
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  Artemis (artemis201@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 05:32:59 JST Artemis
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  Hey y'all, wanna know what a disgruntled baby owl looks like?
  Well, someone opened the refrigerator near Beans. This is his disgruntled face.
  Ruffled is a good word here.
  #BakedBeansOwl #Owl #Owls #Zoo #screechowl
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  1. Beans standing on a leather glove. He is quite ruffled. His ear feathers (did you know owls have movable ear feathers?) are sticking straight up and the feathers on his face between his eyes and around his beak are also sticking straight out, long enough that it's kind of hard to see his beak. He's staring intently at something to the right of the camera. He clutches a small piece of meat in one claw.
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  Artemis (artemis201@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 02:29:59 JST Artemis
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  My friends, as it is Superb Owl day, I would like to show a more recent picture of Baked Beans, taken back in January. He now has his adult plumage and is quite majestic, particularly since he's all sticky-uppy. He was being taken past the gorilla play room and did not like the gorillas.
  #superb_owl #SuperBowl #BakedBeansOwl #owl #owls #screechowl #screechowls #superbowl2026
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  1. A small owl perched on a glove. It's facing forward but looking to the right towards something behind the camera. It's ear and face feathers are all sticking up in alarm. The owl is a tawny brown with white patches on its face and chest, and smaller dark patches on its chest and wings.
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  Artemis (artemis201@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 02:30:00 JST Artemis
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  Baby owls, not always cute. Sometimes, they look like death warmed over, right after waking up but before the coffee is ready.
  My sister calls this his "mouldy strawberry" phase.
  Anyway, here's another picture of Beans taken the same day as the previous post. I don't think he's quite awake yet
  #BakedBeansOwl #owl #owls #zoo
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  1. A close up of Beans. His eyes are mostly closed and puffy. You can really see the prickly looking feathers starting to come in around his face. Overall he's the color of dust from under the bed, interspersed with unstmmetric dark patches. Between his eyes the feathers are particularly prickly looking. They're tan with white tips and small black bits, and it kind of looks like he's bald there. The feathers under his eyes are dark, making him look like he has deep bags under his eyes. Overall it reminds me of a cartoon where someone might look comedically horrifying right after they wake up.
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  Artemis (artemis201@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 02:30:01 JST Artemis
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  This is one of the earliest Beans pictures. He itty! He bitty! He covered in baby fluff!
  Look at that little round boi. If you zoom in, he is rockin that 'stache
  #BakedBeansOwl #Owl #owls #zoo
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  1. A very small owl, maybe 6 inches tall. His silhouette resembles a round ball of a head on top of a slightly longer round ball of a body. His plumage shows he's very young. He's just starting to have real feathers come in. The baby fluff is a light greyish color intermixed with feathers that are just starting to show patterns of light and dark brown horizontal waves. His face is patchy light grey, light brown, and dark brown, and mostly just looks like a mess. Between his eyes looks quite spiky like pins and needles, and kind of looks balding. Besides his beak the feathers are a little more well formed and kind of look like a voluminous mustache. His eyes are very dark and somewhat squinting as regards the observer. He looks like he was recently woken up from bed. My sister calls this his "mouldy strawberry" phase. His enclosure appears to be a travel crate filled with towels and a water dish and a wooden dowel perch, with a metal grid door on the front
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  Artemis (artemis201@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Mar-2026 14:13:08 JST Artemis
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  Heyguysheyguysheyguys
  LOOK AT THIS OWL! HE IS SO UPSETTY!!!
  There are 2 baby penguins who are staying in a pen in the hall. They're also going to be ambassador birds, so all the keepers are encouraged to pick them up and cuddle them multiple times a day to get them used to people.
  BEANS DOES NOT LIKE THE BABY PENGUINS.
  #BakedBeansOwl #screechOwl #zoo #animals #owl #owls #screechowls
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  1. A 10-inch tall screech owl perched on his handler's glove. He looks so incredibly upset. His ear feathers are sticking straight up, his face feathers are all sticky out, to the point that his head looks as big as the rest of his body. He's glaring daggers at the camera as if it has insulted him in the most egregious way known on this earth. He is the cutest 10 inches of wrath incarnate you will ever see.
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  Artemis (artemis201@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 13:46:52 JST Artemis
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  Y'all, #BakedBeansOwl is still so angry. How dare those penguin chicks come in and be cute?!?!?
  #Owl #owls #screechowl #screechowls #animal #animals #zoo
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  1. A similar image to the previous one, but now Beans is looking to the right (away from the person whose arm he's sitting on) presumably towards the baby penguins. He still looks like the most offended owl in the whole universe. His ear tufts are straight up and he's leaning slightly backwards, away from the chicks down the hall.
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  Artemis (artemis201@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 13:46:53 JST Artemis
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  Here's a picture of the offending penguin chicks.
  #penguin #penguins #zoo #animal #babyanimal
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  1. A top-down view of two charcoal grey penguin chicks sitting in the corner of their pen. The floor of the pen is covered in a fluffy blue towel with a bit of bird poo on it. There's a clean bowl of water available. The chicks are both looking out through the glass walls. They are adorable and incredibly fluffy looking, each about the size of a large mango. They have black beaks and eyes, and we can see one foot peaking out from underneath the sitting one, displaying light grey toes with black talons. The other chick is laying on its stomach looking out..
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