owls

[SteveP]

my house has a lot of woods around it..
last night i woke up at 1:30 to hear a serenade of owls...
one would hoot... another further away would hoot back... another 3rd one would then chime in...
it was fantastic. i love stuff like this.
they were clearly responding to each other and replying.
i have to figure out a way to record it... really cool.

[DCT]

What do you think of squirrels?

I've only seen owls a few times. Fascinating.

[Saab2000]

Birds are cool. I watched a trained falcon a couple years ago and was mesmerized by it. The trainer had it sitting on a fence as he walked away and stood about 100 meters away. The falcon just watched and then on command, and only then, took off and flew straight to the trainer's gloved hand. Cool stuff.

[monadnocky]

SteveP... These are most likely barred owls- they really go nuts this time of year... Very social, totally gorgeous wonderful owls. Fabulous creatures. There was a lousy acorn crop last year, which resulted in a bad mouse season, which resulted in a bad owl season year this year, so you're fortunate to hear a few. Hope they stick around for you.

[airedale]

I'm a realist and not a superstitious sort of guy, but, a couple of years ago pre one of the hardest days of our lives, which we knew was coming, my partner and I saw a tawny frog mouth, not a true owl but close enough, Sitting in a tree in our street. We live in the city and this was the first I'd seen in the 'wild' my whole life. Kinda felt like nature was saying that everything would be okay.

Tawny Frogmouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Very cool birds.

[Jacques]

some fucking owls

[ron l edmiston]

hummingbirds all over tammy's garden wildlife area.. couple of nesting cardinal families too that the mockingbirds pester the shit out of..
love the big ole barn owls across the road in the woods that play hell on any rabbits in tammy's butterfly garden at night, sound like "in coming" when they
put on their spoiler air brakes prior to chimney landing..
nesting bald eagles across the lake, along with ospreys and even a few coyotes that our neighbor cattle rancher keeps a few donkeys around when his cows are calfing..

bro darren, even a few "tree rats" that tease the shit outa chloe, running up and down our screened in..

never a "nature-less" moment, but we love it..

ronnie

[bellman]

I've got some cool owl memories.

My first fulltime job was in a feedmill at 16, If I left the right doors open from the upper bins, the owls that lived upstairs would hunt in the warehouse at night and leave exactly the rear half of the rats that they caught on the floor because they were too big to eat in one shot. If I left the uneaten half there overnight they would come back for it. One time they left the back half of an albino rat. We're talking grain rats of 9-11 inches or so without the tail! There was a little navigation involved for the owls and some stairways for them to hop up and down as they came and went. All doors to the outside were closed.....Amazing creatures.

I spent a few week Down under in FNQ about ten years ago and in one of the campgrounds there were these huge paperbark trees, in the bark there lived these lizards, on these lizards the owls would feed. They would hit the trees so hard that there would be an explosion of sound and bark would come raining down in a huge puff. It wasn't one after another but at 6-7 times a night it was regular enough that you could wait for it and sometimes see it happen.

[SteveP]

these are darrens friends... behind my house

[devlin]

I lived near Airedale for some time and had an encounter with a Tawny Frogmouth. Poor bugger was found on our front lawn in a sickly state. I grabbed a towel and picked him up, put him in a box to try and warm him up and called the local wildlife rescue mob (WIRES). By the time they got there he(she?) had died. I could not get over how big it actually was and how little it weighed. Beautiful creature.

Doing some night rides around where I live now I have seen some owls(?) around, though I have yet to look them up. They could be Tawny Frogmouths as well. Awesome when they pop out of the tree and fly in front of you for 10-20 m before disappearing into the dark.

[Luke]

Here in the Missouri woods...just before dusk, some times you can hear the owl's chanting, "Who-cooks-for-you, who-cooks-for-you-all?" as my grandfather always said.
Mixed with the Whipperwill and Bobwhites...takes me back to snapping beans in the garden and eating home-made ice cream.
Funny what you remember.
;)

[Mabouya]

Here in the Missouri woods...just before dusk, some times you can hear the owl's chanting, "Who-cooks-for-you, who-cooks-for-you-all?" as my grandfather always said

Yup.

There are woods throughout my subdivision (w of St Louis) and at the end of my PM rides, as I struggle up the last few hills before I get to my street, I can hear them hooting quite close to me.

[Nierman]

Last few years we've had families of barred owls nesting in the hedge row right behind our house. Fun to watch momma teach the young to hunt in the daylight hours and my kids got a good nature lesson watching them tear apart snakes and voles. I often talk to them with the cupped-hand/thumb-whistle and they answer back.



I do miss the whippoorwill sound at night - haven't heard one since my days down at Bartle Scout camp.

[R.Liverman]

The owls are not what they seem.

[Tom]

Last summer I kept hearing this weird noise in the park all night long and finally I looked it up, it turns out it is a screech owl. It's not a screech it makes, apparently the name comes because they are very territorial and if they aren't making a weird noise the first you know they have a nest nearby is that they divebomb your head. You make the screech.

When I was a kid there were big owls in the pines across the road, they'd call with that deep 'who cooks for you all' (great description) and if you did it right you could imitate them until in the dusk this great big bird would come silently overhead checking out the source of the noise. That was cool.

[sonny]

<snip> if you did it right you could imitate them until in the dusk this great big bird would come silently overhead checking out the source of the noise. That was cool.

get yrself a cassette player and record some shitty native owl calls off the computer. make a loop.
drag it into the woods and lay on your back so the trees are backlit by the sky
crank up the player and wait.

i could fart and the barreds would go crazy

[kpomtb]

Here's one that spent a few days in my garage.owl 1.jpg

[Moke]

Watch out for the cat and small dogs when the hoot owl sings, just sayin.

[corko]

whats the differance between a bad maksman and a constipated owl?

one can shoot but cant hit.....the other.....

[Craig Ryan]

If you ever see a bunch of crows making noise and raising cane during the day, it's likely they're harassing a Great Horned Owl. I love owls.