Owlet then? Awfully cute bird and I enjoy the way it's posed on the really cool perch. The perch is so cool, I would not mind seeing even more of it, at the cost of the owl being smaller in the frame of course....The background is rich in color, well controlled, and perfect as far as any noise would go...Brilliant image sir.
Even though it is a man made perch, the rust,texture and curves makes it work very well, with the rounded shape of the owl.
Soft light helped. Some might wish for the darker eye to be brought up exposure wise, but I am good with it.
As an ophthalmologist, I enjoy the non consensual pupil reflexes that he displays. In humans, both pupils are linked so that they are of equal size, even if one eye is in the sun, one in the shade, but that isn't the case in birds, where the pupil size is independently controlled.