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JWFilips
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Video...hope it works it is large
http://www.liv18thc.com/forumphotos/2-2011Turkey1.MOV
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
This guy was sitting and preening in a cypress tree just the other side of the fence line, yesterday afternoon. Till two years ago, when a pair showed up, there had never been any in the area. Now they sit in the trees or on the fence looking for tasty tree squirrels.
Last night, an owl could be heard in another group of cypress trees -- first time ever for that.
Last night, an owl could be heard in another group of cypress trees -- first time ever for that.
JWFilips
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Winelover...great shots! I never seen one of them in my parts! We mostly have Great Horned and of course the little Sawet's
Last late winter & early spring We had a mating pair of Greats along the property line! Never let them tell you that they are only active at night!
What a show they put on every morning!
Last late winter & early spring We had a mating pair of Greats along the property line! Never let them tell you that they are only active at night!
What a show they put on every morning!
RBHarter
West Central AR
I had a Great Horned pair in a tree over a place I lived in Nevada one of the fledglings fell out of the nest . Crazy big chick all in pin feathers I'd guess about 7-8# 18-20" tall . We took it to a Raptor sanctuary by the fall it was back in our area .
Rare thing to have 4 owlets make it to adulthood where the ravens wreck nests and gang up 3-4 to one on the pairs until they get nest or starve them .
We had quite a few barn owls too .
During a boonie wander trip I stumbled on to an oasis , a very rare spring pond of about a 1/2 acre with a little run off , 3-4 acres of narrow graze and a hillside full of burrowing owls , 25-30 maybe more . Pretty amazing to see so many in such small area . There must have been a lot of rats and mice , I don't think one of those softball sized raptors could take anything much bigger than a pigmy cottontail and almost certainly not a desert jack although there is a video of an eagle eating an antelope still up walking around .
Many Native Americans saw the owl as a harbinger of death . Unfortunately for me when the owls find their to my doorstep it seems to hold true .
Rare thing to have 4 owlets make it to adulthood where the ravens wreck nests and gang up 3-4 to one on the pairs until they get nest or starve them .
We had quite a few barn owls too .
During a boonie wander trip I stumbled on to an oasis , a very rare spring pond of about a 1/2 acre with a little run off , 3-4 acres of narrow graze and a hillside full of burrowing owls , 25-30 maybe more . Pretty amazing to see so many in such small area . There must have been a lot of rats and mice , I don't think one of those softball sized raptors could take anything much bigger than a pigmy cottontail and almost certainly not a desert jack although there is a video of an eagle eating an antelope still up walking around .
Many Native Americans saw the owl as a harbinger of death . Unfortunately for me when the owls find their to my doorstep it seems to hold true .
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
When I resided in Michigan, I had seen a Great Grey Owl, during the day. They are huge.
Once, a Snowy Owl, same area. They are pretty rare, since that is their southern most boundary. That only happens, once in a while, base on the lemming population fluctuations.
Once, a Snowy Owl, same area. They are pretty rare, since that is their southern most boundary. That only happens, once in a while, base on the lemming population fluctuations.
Rick H
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Love owls. Was calling coyotes with an old Johnny Walker tape machine, had a bent piece of coat hanger attached to hold a duck wing on a string to flutter and flop in the breeze. I had the machine cross wind from me out about 40 yds, all cammoed up in hopes of some action. It was early morning, but well past dawn when I was covered by a huge shadow perhaps 3' over my head swooped the Great Horned Owl, absolutely silent until it clanged into the coat hanger. They are some truly magnificent hunters.
Ian
Notorious member
In the winter of 2000-2001, when I had a house on the north side of a rolling, grassy hill northwest a ways from Fort Worth, I saw a small, white owl. I had just stepped out on the front deck for a smoke before bed and to check on any frozen precip that might be starting to blow in with the howling norther that was in progress. As I peered into the clouds, the little owl materialized out of the light spitting ice right in front of my face, then pulled up and fluttered over to my gutter to perch and rest for a few minutes before taking off again into the night. I'm a little superstitious and took it as an omen. No one believed I saw a white owl in north Texas, hell I didn't either at first, but there it was, about th size of a barn owl and with some grey accents on its face and spots on its wings. The only owl I know of that fits that description is a female snowy owl. How she got where she was that night is anyone's guess.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Owls are long distance travelers. I am not surprised to hear of a snowy that far south in the winter. They are primarily rodent feeders and will travel a long ways on a cold front. Don't they call them" blue northerns" down in the south plains when the weather is like that? I saw several snowy's in Silver City, NM, in February one year.