great horned owl
Driving around the lake before dawn this fellow nearly entered my cab It was summer and I had the window down. It coulda been a lot worse. I probably would have crashed. After that, I always had the window up when around water.
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OMG, will he be ok?
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OMG, will he be ok?
Tastes like chicken!!!!!
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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What a hassle. Now you have to spend like 10 minuets adjusting those mirrors.
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When I was a kid I lived in the Atlanta suburbs. 1960, there was no a/c, so on a summer night 6 or 8 adults would be standing around in the driveway, in the dark, chatting among themselves and sipping a highball.
This was so long ago, that rather than snuggling up to their Iphone in their air conditioned house, all by themself, neighbors actually had face to face conversations with their neighbors. And us kids would be running around in the street. On one summer night our neighbor Mrs. Owens said "There he is. He's the B%$@**! who killed my cat last night." She was pointing up at the sky. I couldn't see anything I thought she was kidding. No street lights it was dark.
Mrs. Owens bolted into her house and came right out with a 12 gauge pump shotgun. She pointed up into the darkness and fired. What a noise! What a flash of light! You weren't supposed to shoot guns in that neighborhood. Suddenly I heard a flapping sound, and there crashed to the ground a giant owl. It landed 5 feet away from me. The giant bird was dead. Someone turned on a flashlight, I looked at the bird's claws, they were huge! To me the bird looked like a dinosaur.
That bird had been perched on a telephone line, 30 feet up, I know our phone didn't work right after that I think there was some #8 shot in the telephone line.
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your Lucky it could have been worse for you.
When I was About 9 or 10 yrs some neighbors who racoon hunted, we lived in town shot a big owl and brought it home, tossed it in some weeds. In a alley close by ( Why, who knows to show it off maybe ? )
The poor thing was still alive when I saw it that afternoon, my Parents told me stay away so all us kids did .
I felt bad for the big old bird it was hurt scared and obvious in pain
It was the 1st owI I had seen. I think they took it back to the woods next night and did it in, or at least I hope as it was gone the next day . Even now 60 years later i still canpicture that big old bird just lying on its side hurt.
its sad they shot and let it suffer all day even as akid I knew it was wrong But nothing I could have Done back then
We hear one on ocassuon here at hoke but have not seen it but I think it's a smaller varation owl
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My resident hooty whoo at the farm.
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They tell us when it's time to go silent and still when spring turkey hunting.
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That's him! nice picture.
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Many years ago I was driving an old Volkswagen Beetle with the 6V electrical system and headlights that would illuminate about 25 feet in front of the vehicle on high beam. I was on a deserted 2 lane road in SC about 3am going home from my girlfriends home and thumped a big owl that wedged between the windshield pillar and radio antenna.I think I drove about another 10 miles before the owl flopped a couple of times and levitated off the windshield.
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We had one every January come and roost in a big old Oak just outside our bedroom window. Woke us up around 1 AM every year for years. Haven't heard him for the past 2 years now. But January is coming🕐️
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Back in my Arkansas State Park days, I was toolin' along just before daylight in the State's 5 CY dump truck when an owl flew up off the shoulder and completely took off the right hand mirror (didn't do him any good either). I had to complete my trip to the Little Rock headquarters blind on that side. Pretty good pucker factor for a 22 YO.
Speaking of owls, there was a group Ranger event during camping season called the "owl prowl", where campers brought flashlights and were lead through the park to spot nighttime wildlife. Using an owl call you can have some pretty lively conversations with barred owls. My grandsons love that.
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….I was maybe, 20 years old at the time…walking thru the woods looking for a place to deer hunt later in the year…up ahead about 25' or so I saw "something" on the ground, a few steps more I saw it was a Great Horned Owl, BIG!… A LOT bigger than the Barn Owls and smaller owls I'd seen…I walked up withing 5-6' and just watched him/her for about 5 min., it didn't move, just looked at me…I walked away, figuring whatever was wrong with it probably killed it, if something didn't eat it first…this thing came up to my knee…had no idea they were so big…cool birds…
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I used to be able to do their "Whoo, Whoo" good enough they would answer me!
I would take my oldest out after dark when she was 5 or 6 and call to them. She would get so excited when those owls would answer me!! She thought I had super powers!!😁
Those are wonderful memories!1
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Last year in Delaware County, NY behind my daughters barn. —————-Ray
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