I have only had my daughter for 9 days, so we are both fairly new at this whole being a baby/parent thing.
However, I believe there is mounting evidence to suggest that my daughter is in fact an owl.
She is completely nocturnal. Still awake as I type this and staring at me with great big owl-like eyes.
She has long legs and big feet, with scratchy talons for toe nails.
She flaps her arms/wings constantly as if she is about to take off.
She has an insatiable appetite, although I have only tried her on milk so far, I think if I offered her a mouse she'd probably take that too.
Her poo looks as though she's eaten a ten gallon tub of bird seed. It's runny and wet and seedy. Seedy poo = bird. No?
She squawks. A lot.
However, she's fairly bald in the way of feathers. One would assume though that small owls don't have their feathers straight away and they are a bit pink and bald.
Also she doesn't really have a beak as such.
Her head doesn't turn nearly 360 degrees. Not that I've seen anyway.
I have attached a photo of her "perching".
I must get back to the child/owlet now.
(Awaits confirmation of owl baby status...)