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Mula
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New Neighbors in Lopez Mateos
A pair of Great Horned Owls moved into our palm tree 5 days ago . . .
I don't know if you can see him. He's right in the middle of the photo with his ears up.
He and his partner sit on the front gate various times during the night.
What kind of unusual neighbors do you have? (not the people kind)
[Edited on 7-17-2013 by Mula]
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Bubba
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I have a couple living on my property also. Really awesome creatures.
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danaeb
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In El Centenario, we've had an explosion of the mouse population, followed by rising numbers of snakes. I wonder if your owls are part of the same
cycle.
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shari
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We had a great horned owl as a pet..We aved him as an infant and Nico was a fantastic edition to the family. He grew up with the kitties & puppies
and would play with them. He lived in our palapa on the patio and ate all the bugs, scorpions, spiders, snakes, mice and scared the hell out of
people! They thought he was stuffed and they would scream when he moved...jajajaja. Town folk thought I was a witch because we had an owl. We would
bring him road kill as a special treat and he also loved fish...unfortunately a puppy played too rough with him and sort of mauled him and he went to
owl heaven.
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Mula
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Cool!
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BajaBlanca
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way cool!
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willardguy
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all you OLD guys hit like if you remember the OWL shop in summerland! (sorry:cool
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msteve1014
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Crap, I guess I am old. I think I remember all the names for Pete's Reef too.
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The main food source for Great Horned Owls is other owls.
Sooooo the more Great Horned Owls you see, the better (or the worse) . It's a point of view thing I guess. Now that I think of it, everything is.
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tehag
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Owls
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/owlp/ghowl/docume...
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shari
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we were always finding stashes of food behind chairs, under tables...a rabbit leg here, a fish there...half a snake behind the planter...Nico was
hiding snacks for later. And he would take great care in where he was going to divide up the snake...studying it from head to tail until he decided to
chomp it in half or thirds or quarters depending how long the snake was. He was fascinating to watch. It took forever for him to grow his "horns" and
would fly over and land on my plate if I was having waffles which he loved.
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msteve1014
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Your puppy was very lucky. I would hate to see what an angry owl could do.
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bajacalifornian
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Hey Amiga . . . always fish hawks but not these for me while there.
Rodio this weekend. Mundo races as well. Miss you.
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Shari, You might enjoy this video of an owl and a cat that someone recently sent me:http://youtu.be/mWhD5bc6Fmg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Osprey
The main food source for Great Horned Owls is other owls.
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Great Horned Cannibals? YUCK
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shari
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Mr.Loco....that is an amazing video....I sure wish I had video's Nico playing with the kitties too.
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We love them and have seasonally returning families every fall up here on the Az ranchito. The "ears" are actually tufts of feathers. They are
powerful magic for some. Its interesting how different the views of North American Indigenous cultures are on this creature. One of our local tribes,
the White Mountain Apache believe the great horn can speak Apache and are considered a bad omen. To the extent that if one takes up residence on one
of their homes they will abandon it and someone in the family may die. Needless to say when I worked for the fire dept. down there I was asked to
remove the great horn owl feather I was flying from my rear view mirror as I may give some community members the wrong idea, ie Brujo.  Oh btw Boo!
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Bubba
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
we were always finding stashes of food behind chairs, under tables...a rabbit leg here, a fish there...half a snake behind the planter...Nico was
hiding snacks for later. And he would take great care in where he was going to divide up the snake...studying it from head to tail until he decided to
chomp it in half or thirds or quarters depending how long the snake was. He was fascinating to watch. It took forever for him to grow his "horns" and
would fly over and land on my plate if I was having waffles which he loved. |
Very cool.
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If one is sitting on your gate at night and you walk by without knowing it's there, it'll scare the crap out of you when it takes off. When they
spread their wings in the dark they look twice as large as the do in the daylight.
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gotta love those hooters! (after 30 years a new logo!)
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