Perching Owl — Wide-Eyed and Watching

Overlapping steel disc scales on the body, layered flat strip wings, and those flower-petal eyes with hollow dark centres — this owl has a construction logic that rewards time spent looking at it. Dark mahogany-brown body, warm rust-orange wings, slim talon legs. It perches on a wall, a post, a garden bench, or a stone step and holds the spot completely. The kind of piece people walk past twice before they stop.