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astrobaja
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Great horned Owl
This one was sitting in the top of a big live oak, he/she let us get pretty close. Such a spectacular bird! You can hear them calling to one another
right around sunset all up and down our arroyo.
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ELINVESTIG8R
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Another great picture! Boy it was sure looking at you hard. 
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DENNIS
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There's a big family of them living around my place. They sit on top of the power poles throughout the night and talk to each other. At sunrise,
they fly off to the canyon. I once had one sitting in front of my window checking me out. A beautiful bird, for sure.
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Pops
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How many might fit on a skewer?
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Barry A.
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That rattler would like to nail that guy----------
beautiful pic, and bird.
----no skewers tonight (yuck)
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Crusoe
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Great Shot!.....This owl hunts rabbits, rodents and birds,including crows, ducks and other owls.On ocasion it even captures skunks.It is the largest
and best known of the common owls.Since owls can see in the dark, in the old days they were believed to possess supernatural powers; because of their
solemn appearance they have become symbols of wisdom or occult knowledge. Their range extends throughout N. America south of the tree line.Quite
common in deserts. What a beautiful bird! ++C++
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oladulce
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Neat Picture! Their wingspan seems huge when they swoop close to you at night, doesn't it?
Heard a story from an acquaintance about a baby Great horned owl he rescued when he was 12 yrs. Fed it from a dropper etc and it would follow him
around like a puppy. It would be in the tree across the street from his school when he got out, and would fly above him from tree to tree as he walked
home.
Any other owl stories?
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dtbushpilot
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Saw this guy in a tree by the house one morning, the biggest GHO I've ever seen. We keep Cacawhate close by when he's around as I'm sure he could
carry her off.........dt
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Mexitron
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Heh...owl stories...the night before our trip to the San Pedro Martir in 1993 an owl sat on my window ledge and squawked and flapped its wings on the
window--strange to see an owl doing that two feet from my head! Next day we ended getting badly stuck in the San Telmo river crossing for 18
hours...s'pose the owl was trying to warn us?
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bacquito
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Great picture. I've seen them in Date trees in an area I work.
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oladulce
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Heh...owl stories...the night before our trip to the San Pedro Martir in 1993 an owl sat on my window ledge and squawked and flapped its wings on the
window--strange to see an owl doing that two feet from my head! Next day we ended getting badly stuck in the San Telmo river crossing for 18
hours...s'pose the owl was trying to warn us? |
He was demonstrating the butterfly stroke in case you needed it
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Pompano
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Owls are great creatures.
We have had owls at our northern home forever. Tufted and round-heads. Great Horned & Great Grey Owls, Snowy Owls, Barn Owls, Hawk Owls, Screech
Owls, Burrowing Owls, Damn Loud Owls....and some Show Business Owls, like this guy at our local renaissance fair.
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Eagles get into the act, too.
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Owls, like mentioned in this thread before make great pets and can be trained much as a falcon or hawk. Where I grew up, the nearest ranch was the
home of my boyhood friend, who had a pet owl and two pet crows. The owl was named..what else..Hooter.
The two crows were Heckel and Jeckel (famous cinema cartoon crows of our era). Whereever my buddy and I would go, those 2 crows
would follow.
Later, when school started the crows would try to ride into our country schoolhouse on his shoulders, but the teacher always shoo-ed them outside,
where they made quite a racket before flying home. My chum also had a pet skunk named Stinky.....who destroyed about half our
combined wardrobes in a very short time.
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jeans
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The Case of the Missing Chicken Carcass
I had baked a chicken in a Corning Ware baking dish, removed the meat and for some reason set the dish outside on the patio table. The carcass was
encrustedly stuck to the dish. Then I left on an errand for about 20 minutes. It was already dark. I came back to find the dish busted into a
gazillion pieces about 15 feet away from the table. The chicken carcass was gone.
Hmm…what happened?? 
The dish was too far away from the table to be knocked off by a dog, and the concrete was chipped where the dish crashed down. The only thing that
made sense was one of the many neighborhood owls must have swooped down and latched onto that carcass and flew off with it, and the dish dropped off.
I miss that dish…
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Cypress
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jeans, Owls aren't scavengers, but you never know. They might have been drooling over that chicken for an hour or two. Your guess is as good as mine,
but I'd bet a two-legged thief dropped the plate and ate the bird.
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jeans
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
jeans, Owls aren't scavengers, but you never know. They might have been drooling over that chicken for an hour or two. Your guess is as good as mine,
but I'd bet a two-legged thief dropped the plate and ate the bird.
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Quien sabe??
Living in the boonies presents lots of little animal based mysteries...went out to get the morning paper and found a trail of fresh, red droplets of
blood leading around the walkway...loads of walnut shells under my pine tree...regurgitated gopher heads, too....and then there's the built in snake
alarm in the form of a multi-species contingent of birds. They raise such a ruckus when a snake is around that I have to see what the commotion's all
about.
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Cypress
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jeans, Living in the boonies. Yea we've lost 5 goats in the past couple of weeks. Looks like a wolf or wolves did the damage from the looks of the
tracks. Ate full grown goats , left a little hide bones etc. 
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Oggie
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Great pictures, What a beautiful bird.
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astrobaja
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Owls seem to be a revered bird no matter what culture you are in! We plan on making a bunch of nesting boxes for the Great Horned owls, but also for
the spotted owls that are supposed to be in our area.
Making nesting boxes are a wonderful way to attract birds, pretty easy to make too!
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Wetlands/5181/nestbox.ht...
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Crusoe
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For attracting birds.....Also big bird baths with a clean water change each day, that is out in the open, so the smaller birds can have a chance to
escape predators. Nice stuff! ++C++
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mulegemichael
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Bird stories; My daughter in law, carrying my one year old granddaughter came around the corner of their shop the other day and found herself staring
into the eyes of an adult bald eagle not 4 feet away...it was standing on one of our freshly killed chickens and tearing chunks off..she said it
looked 4 feet tall and was not afraid to make eye contact...scared the s**t out of her....the next day my son was out making the chicken coop eagle
proof when the big boy came back...jake had to swing at him with a shovel to discourage him from taking another meal with him....big birds and they're
not afraid...i am tho.
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