The Owl And The Nightingale-Stories

Once upon a bird kingdom, there lived two friends an owl and a nightingale that lived in on a giant and tall oak tree.



The nightingale in his beautiful plumage and sweet sounding songs is the king’ favorite who sing by day of sweet spring and sing by night of dull lullaby.

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The humble owl by the words of the king is the laziest of them all; he sleeps all day and hoot by night. It is sad that it is the song of the nightingale that woos the owl to sleep by day.

 Not a sweet song the owl will sing only weary and eerie sound, scouting his rolling big and goggling eye balls in the dark. The nightingale is the complete contrast of the owl in the opinion of the entire kingdom.

He was shamed by the mockery from the entire kingdom and would embrace himself with his large feather and sleep his worries away since there isn’t much he could by day.

But who will know of his hunting skills at night, his vigilant nature when others cuddle in their nest. Who will if not the nightingale that have knowledge of both night and day and his friend who?

One fateful day, predators came to the big oak tree where the king an eagle nested, the snakes climbed into the nest when all the birds were asleep.

The owl whom night to his seeing is day sighted them trying to enter the eagles nest. He fluttered and turned and swooped two of the snakes clawing his talons into the body of the snake. He threw them from way up and they landed to their death.

The rest two snakes crawled away having sensed the owl’s presence and threat.

When darkness was broken from the eyes and morning came, the eagle found two dead snakes at the bottom of the tree and the owl on a branch nearby sleeping. From that day they began to respect the owl for being the nightwatchbird that saved his eggs.