Poor Owl

This owl was dead on the road when I walked last week. I think it's a Boobook owl. I put it in the bird cemetery, a thick photinia tree I have along Launching Place Rd, where it rests with the large number of other roadkill birds I've placed there over the years.
Owls are wonderful beccause they are nocturnal and help control numbers of rodents by preying on rats and mice, part of the ecological system.
I propped it on the transistor radio for the purpose of the photo. The radio is about six 150mm across and the bird was about 300 mm in length. I noticed its feathers were so soft. The bird book tells me this is why owl fly so silently to catch their prey without alarm.
In my dream future of the world there are no cars.