Check out this Hooter
 

This one kinda looks like Oscar the Grouch. Owls are Bada$$.

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Just one...not two? :confused:

They truly are! Several years ago, one flew in (silently of course) and perched on a limb in the woods about 25' behind me as I fished my pond. Stayed there for mebbe 30 minutes .... gave me the "stink eye" whenever I threw a bass back in .... then he was gone .... just as stealthy as he arrived.

Hooty-hoo :)

We had a pair of these in our yard in CA. Good watch birds!

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I hear them hooting every night. I can hear at least three. Started up about 3 weeks ago.

There’s one in the back yard. Have never gotten a good look. But we hoot back and forth some nights while in the hot tub.

A few years back...driving down my road in the winter-time, I noticed something that looked like a snowman in the top of a large tree.
The snowy owl is about out of it's range in Michigan...but there it was.
I swear it was at least two foot tall...huge bird.


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Careful. This time of year they are looking for a mate...

Full moon crisp walk last night. First time I heard one in many years.

A Great Horned Owl was being quite vocal.
https://www.audubon.org/news/learn-identify-five-owls-their-calls

Was pulling out of the driveway one morning at zero dark thirty. An Owl had swooped down and just about hit the windshield. It was huge! I almost pooped!

“Almost”. Riiiiiight. ;)

maybe I'm into that.


we have long conversations.

An owl on vacation.

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Awesome birds!
Stealth hunters.

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I can "talk" to them and they come to check out hooty, but...

I don't have "game" :D

They are so cool....

they dine up in the fields where I run the dogs in the mornings..
go get the birds is a game..
bark bark and on to the next tree..
2 of the oldies are huge..

Rika

It finally made sense to me as to why they turn their heads so much, when I read that they don't have any eye muscles.
Was on a motorcycle trip once and going down a road that was a tunnel of trees. An owl decided to go down the same tunnel, just above helmet height. Huge bird with a wing span that must have been 3-4 feet wide. Came in from behind and passed low just before pulling up and exiting the trees. Quite the scare even if I was only doing 30-35mph.