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.

love owls. but once you've seen one without feathers the bad-assedness kinda fades.

There is another item often refereed to as hooters. Once ya see one naked and without feathers, well you pretty much wanna see em all. :eek:

Unless you are the bunny about to be a midnight snack:cool:

So purpose built:

https://theawesomedaily.com/owl-without-feathers-picture/

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With feathers, they are a wonder of aerodynamics and quiet: https://www.audubon.org/news/the-silent-flight-owls-explained

My favorite birds of prey are Ospreys followed closely by the various Owl gangs. Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes over 200 species. I looked it up!

Ospreys rule the day, Owls the night.

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Looks Alien. Trippy!

Apparently Owls have really skinny muppet legs underneath their floof



We have Owls by my place in Vermont..very interesting watching them


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you got that right!!!!

Oh no you don't .... trust me on that ;)

We haven't heard any around here for a few years - unfortunately. I read somewhere they couldn't move their eyes so they have to move their heads to look. I also read their brains are smaller than their eyes. I wish we had more around here to get rid of the rodents.

I was hoping for a different kind of hooter.

You mean like this?

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We have great horned here as well as a couple mating pairs of snowy owls in the winter that we see daily. The great horned was living in my shop until I got the doors on. When they land on our roof and hoot at night, it makes my dog go ape 5hit...

My friend has a bunch of burrowing owls at his place, I will post som photos I take of them last summer.

:)

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A great hooter story: Years back...I'd pitched my tent at City of Rocks campground just south of Silver City, New Mexico - very cool place with campsites set among very large vertical stones.

At any rate...laying in my tent in the light of a full moon - I suddenly noticed that a very small owl had landed on the very peak of the tent...after which it proceeded to slide down the tent fabric.

What happened next was amazing - as this owl then flew back up, and slid down again...like a kid on a playground slide. More amazing still was that this owl was then joined by two others...and the three of them spent about an hour, sliding down the tent, with me in complete awe...watching their moonlit silhouettes as they each slid down multiple times! Will never forget this!

^What an amazing story!

Owls are fascinating creatures.

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The closest I ever came to an owl was in pitch blackness when one slammed into my windshield going down the highway at 50 mph.

I have never hit an owl but I have hit hawks.

They get tunnel vision when they zero in on prey. They are so focused on that rabbit in the grass as they glide in for the kill they never notice the at speed death threat coming in on their flank.

You are lookin good, Pav.

Another little PARF pig has wandered from its pen.

Touchy, touchy. Have a sense of humor.