A woman who creates life-like wooden sculptures of birds has won a national wood carving competition. Maggie Port won first ...
A wooden carving of an owl at a children’s playground is causing controversy on social media with parents saying the sculpture has a more X-rated human form. Designed by kids for kids, with a ...
The artist Anne Buckwalter has amassed a collection of hand-carved avian decoys. By Julia Halperin The painter Anne Buckwalter, 38, says she doesn’t like clutter, but she makes an exception for bird ...
A council has felled a dead horse chestnut tree and carved a barn owl from the stump. The tree at Hooks Corner in Cerne Abbas, Dorset, was planted in the 1980s by the village school's headmaster at ...
EDWARDSVILLE — In much the same way that grisly car crashes draw drivers’ attention from the road, Brian Willis’s carved owls are drawing drivers’ attention from a stretch of Franklin Avenue. “Wally ...
Sep 20, 2025 Sep 20, 2025 Updated Sep 20, 2025 With a roar of a chainsaw and a steady hand, Brandon Adams can turn a rough log into a detailed owl, cardinal or bear in just a few hours. Adams, part of ...
Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. There is a small stone owl carved into a corner of the oldest church in ...
A woman who creates life-like wooden sculptures of birds has won a national wood carving competition. Maggie Port won first place in the bird of prey category at the British Decoy and Wildfowl Carving ...