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Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
« 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
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Re: Owls
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2016, 05:50:00 PM »
ttt

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Re: Owls
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Owls
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2017, 08:29:55 AM »
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Re: Owls
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2018, 06:27:49 PM »
gives the description "bird dog new meaning"

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

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Re: Owls
« Reply #7 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.


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ostriches sleeping
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2018, 08:29:07 AM »


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Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
« Reply #13 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.

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Owls In LA
« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2019, 10:10:47 AM »


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Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
« Reply #20 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:

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Owl Boxes
« Reply #23 on: January 23, 2022, 08:45:33 AM »
Putting this here for my future reference:

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


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arctic owl on vacation in California
« Reply #26 on: January 09, 2023, 04:22:36 PM »


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Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
« Reply #28 on: February 26, 2023, 08:33:43 AM »
Far out!

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Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
« Reply #31 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.

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Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
« Reply #33 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 !

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Cher Ami
« Reply #35 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




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Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
« Reply #37 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.

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Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
« Reply #39 on: March 29, 2024, 05:50:51 AM »
WTF?!?

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Our Adventure with an Owl
« Reply #40 on: May 11, 2024, 02:05:51 PM »
An owl became entangled in the netting that protects our chickens last night and when Cindy and I came out in the morning he was hanging upside down and quite exhausted.

We cut him from the netting and Cindy wrapped him in a towel like a burrito and used a syringe to give him some water.  After he rested for a while he was ready, and we let him fly away.

I sent a picture and phone video to a raptor center.   They said he is a Grey Morph Eastern Screech Owl.   Research says adults have a wingspan of eighteen inches and he was less than that, so we are guessing he was an adolescent.

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Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
« Reply #41 on: May 11, 2024, 06:28:16 PM »
good save

of both chickens and a beautiful bird!

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Re: Owls, Falcons, Hawks, etc
« Reply #42 on: May 12, 2024, 04:25:40 AM »
To add to the excitement of the day, last evening Lobo chased off a large hawk that was sitting on a 4x4 post that is just outside the chicken's enclosure!