Inverness rescue owls

Here are some pictures of the owls from a bird sanctuary that a guy displays in Inverness to raise money. I'll need to do some proper shots of these fine feathered fellows sometime when I've got my 70-200 f/2.8 lens with me, but for now here's the best I could do with a 17-40 f/4. With the longer/faster lens I'll be able to blur those awful backgrounds and hopefully produce some nice bird portraits, so consider these a trial run. The ultimate goal will be to get an attractive shot of one of the owls with its wings outstretched, which they do briefly and rarely.