• The Tawny Owl by Hadrian’s Wall
    Awake!—1995 | November 8

    • The Tawny Owl by Hadrian’s Wall

      BY AWAKE! CORRESPONDENT IN BRITAIN

      A THIN trail of mist hung at treetop level as a crescendo of delightful melody broke the stillness of the dawn. Summer migrants had just arrived in the north of England to add their songs to those of the resident blackbirds and thrushes.

      I followed a peat-​stained stream wending its way between banks studded with primroses and wood violets toward the ancestral home of the tawny owl by Hadrian’s Wall.a

  • The Tawny Owl by Hadrian’s Wall
    Awake!—1995 | November 8

    • a Under the orders of Roman Emperor Hadrian, between 120 and 130 C.E., Hadrian’s Wall was constructed as a defense against the unsubdued Caledonian tribes to the north of England. It runs just over 73 miles [117 km] from the Solway firth in the west of England to the mouth of the River Tyne on the east coast.