The cafe's friendly, good-natured staff and friendly owls make this a very pleasant place to spend an hour of your time. The setup is a bit unusual, starting with the ticket machine at the entrance of the three-story shop where you choose what you want to drink in the cafe and how long you want to stay.

The main aviary is up on the third floor, and this is where you can meet most of the seventeen resident birds. The big snowy owl down at the end of the room was quite a character, clowning around for photos and trying to peck at anyone who got within range of its beak. (The proprietor laughingly demonstrated this to us, and said that it didn't really hurt.) The baby owl on a skateboard was another popular model for photographs.

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