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Post by Delta Dawn on Feb 21, 2019 7:05:58 GMT
I think that is an awesome thing to hear and writing it as a post was pretty darned cool. There were two owls as they made different combinations of sounds and took turns. One was higher pitched than the other. They communicated in a sticcato kind of way. I have photos of owls in the trees across the street and know they live there. It was very cool to hear two of them!
Do you like big birds? I love my raptors and all birds really. I find them very interesting creatures.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 7:49:08 GMT
As long as my birds are locked up, I like owls. But what they do to a duck is gruesome.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Feb 21, 2019 8:02:51 GMT
As long as my birds are locked up, I like owls. But what they do to a duck is gruesome. The one across the street in the past wasn’t the smartest one out there. This 10 lb bird went after my 50 lb dog. On a leash with me there. Did he think he’d score the dog for a meal?
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RedSquirrelUK
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Feb 21, 2019 9:43:51 GMT
Very cool. What kind of owls are they? We have tawny owls in our garden and the woods at the back - we hear them most nights. A couple of weeks ago we put the back light on before we went to bed and one was perched in our cedar tree, right outside the window. He stared at us and we stared at him for about 5 minutes before he flew off. That made our day. Or night!
We have kestrels, peregrine falcons and buzzards too. I think raptors are amazing creatures. Yes I know they're predators, but they kill quickly and only for food, unlike cats that torture their prey and then don't eat it.
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Post by Patter on Feb 21, 2019 11:03:56 GMT
Yep, love most birds (not crazy about vultures). We have 8 bird feeders on our deck alone with many more all over our acre of land. I bird watch daily. We have bald eagles, red-shouldered hawks, Cooper's hawks, piliated woodpeckers, red-bellied woodpeckers, downey woodpeckers, Eastern blue birds, you name it. I also have my two parrots indoors. I love knowing bird calls so if I don't see a bird, I know what's out there. Still learning what they all sounds like. Edited to say that we have had owls, and I have an owl box up near the woods hoping they will nest in there. We will see.
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Post by phoenixcov on Feb 21, 2019 13:31:45 GMT
Where I live there is a Rookery so between them and the Seagulls a lot of birds stay away. We do get my favourite Blackbirds along with Blue Tits, Robins, Sparrows etc come to feed everyday. We hear Owls and Woodpeckers in the woods and the Blue tit nesting in a box outside our living room is making a right racket.
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Post by beachbum on Feb 21, 2019 14:11:29 GMT
We have Burrowing owls across the street. They live underground and hunt during the day. They're protected here, the burrows are staked off and a perch is added. The burrow across the street is just a few feet from the road. When we walk by they just sit there and look at us, they're so used to people. There are even a couple of burrows in the medians of a local shopping center. The yearly Burrowing Owl Festival here is on Feb. 23.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 21, 2019 14:21:29 GMT
very cool!! in our old neighborhood we had great horned owls who were hanging around for a while; they were actually both sitting on the roof of the house next door, and when they 'hooted' you could see them puff up and flip their tail each time they made a noise. it was so fun to watch!!
we have a pair somewhere in our new neighborhood, too (there's a lot of big trees and cactus) but I have no idea where they're nesting- I just hear them every once in a while. And early one morning when I had the dogs outside, one of them swooped really low and flew across the yard-- it seemed like it was RIGHT above my head, and it scared the crap out of me!
ETA: I've seen burrowing owls ONCE since we've lived in Arizona, and they were so funny looking! their legs are kind of long, so they look out of proportion.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 14:26:35 GMT
At the moment, I am watching "my" hummingbird get his morning start at the feeder I put out wherever we go. I've had to bring it in the last few nights to keep it from freezing, and I love watching at the window just before sunrise for him to come, then I slide it open and hang out the feeder. He practically lands on my hand.
There is also a pair of great horned owls that live here, and we can spot them most evenings or at least hear them hooting if we walk over to their trees.
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Post by teri on Feb 21, 2019 14:34:03 GMT
we have a mated pair of western screech owls that roost / mate in our bodyshop building. They have been coming for like 5 years. They have had a several sets of babies. Unfortunately, we also have large dogs with prey instincts in the shop. Several babies have meet their doom once falling out of the makeshift nests Mama makes in our ceiling. We call the owls George and Wheezie. can you spot both of them 2 babies fell from the nest a few years ago and we took them to the animal rescue place for them to be raised then released. This year I bought a proper nesting box and we have seen Wheezie, but no George this year. (They are each a different color and make a different purring sound)
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Post by quinlove on Feb 21, 2019 15:13:31 GMT
This all sounds very fascinating.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Feb 21, 2019 16:20:37 GMT
Very cool. What kind of owls are they? We have tawny owls in our garden and the woods at the back - we hear them most nights. A couple of weeks ago we put the back light on before we went to bed and one was perched in our cedar tree, right outside the window. He stared at us and we stared at him for about 5 minutes before he flew off. That made our day. Or night! We have kestrels, peregrine falcons and buzzards too. I think raptors are amazing creatures. Yes I know they're predators, but they kill quickly and only for food, unlike cats that torture their prey and then don't eat it. I think they might be barred owls.
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RedSquirrelUK
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Feb 21, 2019 16:46:41 GMT
Very cool. What kind of owls are they? We have tawny owls in our garden and the woods at the back - we hear them most nights. A couple of weeks ago we put the back light on before we went to bed and one was perched in our cedar tree, right outside the window. He stared at us and we stared at him for about 5 minutes before he flew off. That made our day. Or night! We have kestrels, peregrine falcons and buzzards too. I think raptors are amazing creatures. Yes I know they're predators, but they kill quickly and only for food, unlike cats that torture their prey and then don't eat it. I think they might be barred owls. I believe barred owls may be your equivalent of our tawnies. How lovely.
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Post by lurkyloo on Feb 21, 2019 17:46:31 GMT
Baby owls in my yard is one of my life dreams.
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