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Title: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
Post by: Crafty_Dog on November 26, 2012, 04:55:10 AM

Perhaps due to a couple of brief moments in my life, or perhaps due to something I cannot name, I have an afinity for owls.  Hence this thread:

NYT

I’m driving in the last of the dusk, bare trees on both sides of the road. A bird form slants silently across the highway, just above the arc of the headlights. Impossible to say what color it is, but it is an owl. It is all I ever see of owls up around my farm, that swift, peripheral, ghosting drift across an opening in the trees. Every time I see one I remember the great gray owl that I saw years ago above a hilly dirt road just before dawn in southern Montana. It was as though a cumulonimbus cloud had been compressed into bird shape and given stern yellow eyes.


I see a lot of wildlife in the course of my day. There are the crows that wait in the maple tree until the barn cat has finished eating on the deck. They look far less sagacious when they have a bit of cat food in their beaks. Every time I go out to the chicken yard, I scare up a red-tailed hawk. It sits on a hickory branch above the hens, which are safe beneath a net. Its fierce serenity looks more like petulance as it flies off, having put in another day watching what it cannot have. In the dark, I walk out into the pasture with Ceilidh, the Border terrier, and we can sense the deer, which have gone gray with winter.

But I would like to see more owls. Maybe they are out there keeping an eye out — the great horned and screech, saw-whet and short-eared and the barn owl. One summer dusk I’d like to go out and have the owls make themselves as visible as the bats that drop out of my eaves.

And I would like a holiday when all the hidden creatures around the farm would make themselves apparent just for an hour or two. They step out from their camouflage, from their hidden bowers, from their holes and burrows and nests and recesses. The owls would surely be among them. VERLYN KLINKENBORG

Title: Re: Owls
Post by: Crafty_Dog on November 25, 2016, 05:50:00 PM

ttt

Title: Re: Owls
Post by: ccp on November 26, 2016, 01:20:26 PM

I remember when we still lived in Celebration Florida we would walk out the back around the golf course and through the walk ways among the lake areas and once there was a huge owl just standing on the ground .  A few other people where just staring at it.  He did not look sick but we wondered that something must have been wrong. 

What  a really cool majestic animal it was!   Even the dogs thought it was cool.

Title: Re: Owls
Post by: Admin on November 04, 2017, 08:29:55 AM

Owls

Title: A dog and his owls
Post by: Crafty_Dog on February 09, 2018, 04:12:13 AM

https://www.boredpanda.com/dog-ingo-owl-friends-tanja-brandt/?media_id=1140126&utm_source=petninja&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=thebuzzdigger

Title: Re: Owls
Post by: ccp on February 09, 2018, 06:27:49 PM

gives the description "bird dog new meaning"

dogs could be owl's best friend too.    :-)

Title: Grey Owl in Alaska
Post by: Crafty_Dog on February 28, 2018, 05:46:01 PM

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/animals/rare-footage-of-the-elusive-great-gray-owl/vi-BBJuG9S?ocid=sf

Title: Re: Owls
Post by: ccp on February 28, 2018, 06:25:05 PM

Thank God for back cameras in cars.  I can't even turn my head 90 degrees anymore let alone like the owl.

Title: Owl dleivers ring at wedding; Who who are you?
Post by: Crafty_Dog on April 15, 2018, 11:04:25 AM

https://mashable.com/2018/03/27/owl-attacks-groomsman-wedding/#ZC7FlsrITPq3

https://mashable.com/2018/04/12/owls-on-coworkers-window/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link#LdasHFwxoiqo

Title: ostriches sleeping
Post by: ccp on September 26, 2018, 08:29:07 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EnDTs-1M14

Title: Government versus Falconers
Post by: Crafty_Dog on November 17, 2018, 01:10:53 PM

https://reason.com/blog/2018/11/16/the-government-says-falconers-have-to-gi?fbclid=IwAR2A5l69dEke1SE7Cvyhfe_AnBZS0NyHYc_lK7bTXX6o1xbOmihJVkKSsic

Title: Falconry
Post by: Crafty_Dog on December 15, 2018, 08:30:11 AM

https://www.calhawkingclub.org/index.php/falconry-apprenticeship/information

Title: Falcon egg thief
Post by: Crafty_Dog on January 08, 2019, 11:50:54 PM

https://www.outsideonline.com/2378786/egg-thief-jeffrey-lendrum-falcon?fbclid=IwAR1-G9F6b6tXcNkx_p0-_dJP1-UfWiM8ofCqbgoThHnJfZdjh41B6HVaQzc

Title: Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
Post by: ccp on January 11, 2019, 06:26:44 PM

good
show on PBS Nova last November on the Perigrine Falcons , fastest animal on  Earth.

If anyone wants to watch have to go to PBS and join and log on .

Shows them in cities
and speed testing them ( up to 200 mph in nose dives)
and slow mo videos of them catching prey in mid flight at blinding speed.

Title: Finding owls
Post by: Crafty_Dog on February 12, 2019, 07:21:56 AM

https://www.audubon.org/news/a-guide-finding-urban-owls?fbclid=IwAR1Hn1EJGcZqv0Uv0ahoEivcfSSMwM1gsa_3NCJz3860CBdQrKA0AO4aZWo

Title: Owls In LA
Post by: ccp on February 18, 2019, 10:10:47 AM

New celebrities in town:

https://news.yahoo.com/rare-owls-thrive-ghost-town-near-los-angeles-223515054.html

Title: owls insisting on privacy
Post by: ccp on August 13, 2019, 07:50:17 AM

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/08/12/burrowing-owls-remove-hidden-camera-british-hawk-conservancy-meade-mxp-vpx.hln/video/playlists/atv-trending-videos/

Title: Barred Owls
Post by: Crafty_Dog on October 25, 2019, 03:32:00 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5zc-NHIipw&fbclid=IwAR22sMoWIfUf_DlTjpFRycK-5_vto5AlKQeNSFpJIUnyE8HgT4JENOBwV7M

Title: Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
Post by: Crafty_Dog on November 06, 2019, 08:00:19 PM

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/great-horned-owl-rescued-during-california-wildfire?fbclid=IwAR2g9NQnNkPtMg8ETpVqGI9S5qU4tiVFZoltEz-tYVRPuIuQzDY5IyZCm_U

Title: Arctic Snowy Owls in Detroit
Post by: Crafty_Dog on January 07, 2020, 12:07:55 PM

https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/detroit-is-being-invaded-by-arctic-snowy-owls/Content?oid=8672725

Title: Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
Post by: ccp on January 08, 2020, 04:28:07 AM

" .Arctic Snowy Owls in Detroit"

Snowbirds heading South for the winter?

like Northern white haired retirees who go to FLorida for couple of months per year .  :lol:

Title: Owls are very difficult pets
Post by: Crafty_Dog on January 10, 2020, 10:17:56 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAdSSroUZC8&feature=emb_share

Title: A Parliament of Owls
Post by: Crafty_Dog on May 30, 2020, 10:28:02 AM

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-parliament-of-owls?utm_source=pocket-newtabThe

Title: Owl Boxes
Post by: Crafty_Dog on January 23, 2022, 08:45:33 AM

Putting this here for my future reference:

https://www.wildbirdstoreonline.com/collections/owl-boxes

Title: Grandma's buddy
Post by: Crafty_Dog on April 20, 2022, 10:05:55 AM

https://www.tiktok.com/@shaix_2/video/7087638476610424107?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESPgo8%2FqS%2BN1Y1MhFRFkHtKpptPgpuVcS%2BKdkUSGZGJyMmrGjOLr%2BVXH8ueB8Wea5RpGbytTJGM%2FU%2BXi6CzNqMGgA%3D&_r=1&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAkhVGdgqtp5M4eACtYtPtfEkp3nXjLaCoVWjAsLgG_EsW_O8laIs1Uv3JlaHAZWgX&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=7087638476610424107&share_link_id=20e9e1d5-282f-493b-8e82-51957732ee04&source=h5_m&timestamp=1650425661&u_code=dikai12hl1kc08&ugbiz_name=Main&user_id=6966438913741702149&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=android&utm_source=messenger

Title: Sponsor an Owl, Falcon, or Hawk
Post by: Crafty_Dog on July 17, 2022, 03:55:35 PM

https://www.ocbpc.org/support.html?fbclid=IwAR3f_lRdATwj6QgHoahnsGlDLkzbpv3e7fgBH7aF6xAFyQrfZlSJANEM6fM

Title: arctic owl on vacation in California
Post by: ccp on January 09, 2023, 04:22:36 PM

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rare-arctic-creature-visiting-california-214335763.html

recommend Florida next time  :wink:

Title: Flaco the owl is now NYC's favorite celebrity
Post by: ccp on February 25, 2023, 12:00:41 PM

https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/zoo-owl-escape-flaco-central-park-dallas-houston-break-ins-20230224.html#:~:text=When%20Flaco%2C%20a%20Eurasian%20eagle,allowing%20him%20to%20wander%20off.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/zoo-break-in-changed-the-life-of-an-owl-called-flaco

Title: Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
Post by: Crafty_Dog on February 26, 2023, 08:33:43 AM

Far out!

Title: unlikely neighbors
Post by: ccp on April 28, 2023, 03:02:32 PM

https://www.yahoo.com/news/unlikely-roommates-spotted-sharing-shady-233545398.html

Title: Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, chickens .... etc
Post by: ccp on April 28, 2023, 03:17:36 PM

https://sharktankrecap.com/overez-chicken-coop-update-shark-tank-season-13/

Title: Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
Post by: Crafty_Dog on April 29, 2023, 09:56:39 PM

My Cindy is completely engaged with our 4 chickens, and in a few weeks we will have 4 more.  I shared this with her.

Title: Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
Post by: Crafty_Dog on May 21, 2023, 02:02:57 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeFxdkaFzRA&t=2s

Title: Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
Post by: ccp on May 22, 2023, 05:22:06 AM

cool video

I was going to send to my nephew thinking his small children would like it till the end part about an owl ripping off a little girls face !

 :-o

Title: Barn Owl Box
Post by: Crafty_Dog on September 30, 2023, 10:48:04 AM

https://www.barnowlbox.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=23856629972690537&utm_content=23857809282500537&fbclid=IwAR2vGvi5TbrLJusDqOr6GhShGTMW7vHziqvVW1giAShHR23gDJ7yAiysFqM

Title: Cher Ami
Post by: ccp on November 11, 2023, 08:13:18 AM

WW1 hero carrier pigeon who helped rescue 194 remaining doughboys from the famous "lost battalion" despite being seriously injured from German gunfire:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher_Ami

Title: Falco (the Central Park owl) passed
Post by: ccp on February 24, 2024, 09:26:50 AM

https://apnews.com/article/flaco-owl-dies-central-park-zoo-escape-e44939489c422379723d9fdec1b8c9db

RIP

Title: Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
Post by: Crafty_Dog on February 25, 2024, 03:35:53 AM

Here's an idea.

Establish owls, hawks, and eagles in NYC, especially Central Park and let them feast on the pigeons.

Title: illegal owl immigration in California
Post by: ccp on March 29, 2024, 05:09:01 AM

https://www.yahoo.com/news/plan-shoot-thousands-west-coast-212012510.html

Title: Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
Post by: Crafty_Dog on March 29, 2024, 05:50:51 AM

WTF?!?