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Started by Peter Drouin, April 23, 2013, 07:02:09 PM

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Peter Drouin

I was working out cutting logs for my demo this week end and I saw him going in for lunch

 
so I got a little closer


 
so he was so good to sit for me we had a talk about the chipmunks and the garden :D :D :D :D I know some people on this forum would shoot him but I like him so he can work for me :D :D
later when I got back I was in the mill shed an saw him get a chipmunk, I yelled eat them all  :D :D :D :D Good boy :D :D
nice, God has this all planned out ;D
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Chuck White

Looks like a Great Gray Owl.

You were fortunate to see him, much less get a picture!

They do clean up a lot of little critters!

Great to have them around!
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thecfarm

I have never seen an owl. I was showing the wife the lines and one kept "whoing" at us,but we never saw it and it was close. It kept flying in front of us. Nice picture.
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clww

Great picture, Peter. :)
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Magicman

 :)  That is a nice picture of your friend.   smiley_thumbsup  I will never forget the first one that I ever saw.   :o
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Peter Drouin

It might be the same one I don't know :D

 

they all look alike :D :D but this ones smaller I think.
after looking at the 2, the white between the eyes are different what do you think :D
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martyinmi

One animal I've never taken out is a chipmunk. Never even encouraged another animal to do so. :'(

Perhaps that Owl could be trained to be a herbivore? :D Or at least subject it to a little herbivorous training? 8)

Chipmunks are just too cute. ;)

On a bit more serious note Peter- that is a beautiful animal. We have quite a few of them here in mid Mi. We've always called the ones here "Barn Owls", but I'm sure that they have proper names. They do not appear to be as big as the ones that you've posted. :)
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clww

Chipmunks are cute, right up to when they start nibbling on the tomatoes and cucumbers. >:(
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WmFritz

Both of those are great pictures. Barred owls I think... related to the spotted owls.
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Riggs

Fantastic pictures!!
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beenthere

I take out the chipmunks, as they dig behind the stone walls and are in to everything. I don't get 'em all, but keep the pop'n thinned a bit. Sometimes they have been a real challenge.
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Clark

The barred owl's key identifying feature is the horizontal stripes just below it's chin and the vertical stripes on it's chest/belly.   I'm at best a shade-tree ornithologist but it looks rather small to be a barred but since I often see them on the wing and not sitting like that...don't take my word!

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thecfarm

I have a cat that catches chipmunks. I'm surprised there is one in a square mile of this place. He had one in his month and came into the green house when a customer was here. The customer was not happy. I picked the cat up and the chipmunk bit me.  :o
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mesquite buckeye

That's how it goes. I'm sure that was your fault too. Poor furry creature. Mean man.

We have a pair of those owls every year in our east draw at the Missouri farm. Super cool, thanks for sharing.
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Jeff

QuoteI know some people on this forum would shoot him

Where in the world did that come from? I can't think of a soul on here that I would single out to say they would shoot that owl if they saw it. Not a one.

It is a Barred owl. Here is a photo I took of one at Tom's several years ago.

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Warbird

Nice pictures!  Owls are cool looking creatures.

SwampDonkey

Shooting of raptors is forbidden around here even if it weren't against the law, and it is. I've hunted game birds since a young age and was warned from the start that raptors were no touch or the hunting would come to a quick end. ;)

Here's Chip and Dale for Marty.



And he can have the cat to, which is quite obvious isn't much of a hunter. ;D

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T Welsh

All great pictures! Tim

Peter Drouin

Quote from: Jeff on April 23, 2013, 10:55:13 PM
QuoteI know some people on this forum would shoot him

Where in the world did that come from? I can't think of a soul on here that I would single out to say they would shoot that owl if they saw it. Not a one.






Just the way some people talk on here, sorry
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Chuck White

Here, I can't think of anyone who would shoot and owl, primarily because of what they do.

Besides that, it's against the law!
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beenthere

I too, have never heard of anyone shooting an owl. Some will shoot at hawks, but that may be leftover from when farmers had free-run chickens and the hawks would dine on them with regularity.

Varmint hunting is different (for me), and I will admit to taking out a few downy's that can't leave my wood house siding alone. Or even a robin that won't quit whitewashing my windows. Nor a jenny wren that insisted on building her nest of sticks on the exhaust manifold of my tractor.

But no owls. The one in the pic looked awesome.
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justallan1

Thanks for the pictures. I have one that lives in my barn that will give you a wake-up call when you don't expect it. I wish it would bring home a few of it's friends to help cut down on the mice.
Allan

Sprucegum

Nice pictures!

We had three little guys at our camp summer before last. They flew from tree to tree all afternoon making mournful squaking noises. I tried to entice them with a bit of hot dog wiener but no deal. Their heads would crank right around as they watched me circle the tree  :D Finally momma owl came flying through the clearing making a wierd barking sound, I guess its hard to hoot with a mouse in your mouth, and all three little ones flew after her.

I watched for them last summer but they never returned  :(

rooster 58

    Awesome pictures. One of the amazing things about owls is the way they fly so silently through the woods. When one streaks by my tree stand while I'm hunting it really spooks me :o

Jeff

I had a great horned owl years ago think my dark brown beard (yea, it used to me something other than grey) was a squirrel.  I heard the rush of wind first, then the owl tip back and pull its talons forward aiming right for my face. I dropped my bow and threw my arms up defensively. The owl banked at what seemed like inches away, and I could here its wings for what seemed like several seconds more as it beat it out of there. My bow took a major hit. on the way down it hit a big oak limb that sheared the sites and mount off as well as the stabilizer. Sheared the mounting bolts right off flush to the bow.
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Magicman

It is always exciting to hear squirrels starting to chatter as a predator swoops through the woods.  You instantly look as the chattering gets closer to see if it is an owl or a hawk.  Sometimes it's not swooping because it will be a bobcat.
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Jeff

My dad always told me that deer usually ignored downward movements but are instantly alerted to upward movements.  Usually everything downward bound in the forest is a natural movement. Birds landing, squirrels coming down, leaves and sticks falling and so on.

Anything going up is not natural, or some sort of an alert. Squirrels running up a tree, birds flushing, a deer's tail going up, things like that all spell something is not right. I guess that would still account for a raptor coming in as a natural occurrence to a whitetail.
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Delawhere Jack

Quote from: rooster 58 on April 24, 2013, 01:31:15 PM
    Awesome pictures. One of the amazing things about owls is the way they fly so silently through the woods. When one streaks by my tree stand while I'm hunting it really spooks me :o

I had one snag a squirrel right behind the tree I was in this past winter. Never heard or saw him coming in, just a big crashing in the leave down below, and then that distinctive wump-wump-wump of his wings as he left with his breakfast. He couldn't have been more then 10 feet away.

petefrom bearswamp

Barred owl.
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loggah

The old time lumberjacks swore a owl hanging around a logging camp was bad luck !!!! lots of them would burn all kinds of crap,rubber in the wood stoves to try and drive them away!!!! ;D ;D I don't know of anyone around here that would shoot at them ,i did kick a barred owl once when i came home and it was sitting on a freshly killed chicken. it was a barred owl and let me walk right up to it,it didnt want to leave that chicken !!!! my wife and i never used to mind the chipmunks "UNTIL" last year when we put in a strawberry bed, them little buggers were running off with every ripe strawberry, i had to exterminate a few of them !! Don
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Magicman

Of course this is not an Owl, but a Red Tailed Hawk.  I have no idea what it had just caught, probably a mouse, but it let me walk within 5'.  It's eyes said that I was close enough and to back off.


 
I am not using the telephoto on the camera.
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WDH

Briscoe Darling, Jr. (Andy Griffith Show) once said, "Well, sheriff, uh, I guess it's an owl's own business the way he flies but the important thing is that we saw the counter-omen."   :D :D :D.
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millwright

We have quite a few owls around here ( mostly great horned), they are very welcome, as they really get a lot of mice and red squirrels.

Dave Shepard

I hear the owls around here, they sound just like Pete's. :D I've never seen one.
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isawlogs

 Those are really nice owls. Twice now I have seen a snowy owl, first time was tweenty years ago in a field in front of dads house and the second was last week when one flew across the road in front of me. That white flash gets ones attention right quick.  :D
  They are not commun here but will migrate down when food gets rare.
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rooster 58

   When I was a kid of 13 or so I was hunting with an uncle and his friend. "Cats" shot a great horned owl that day. It was before raptors were protected and the concensus of the era was that raptors were hard on small game. I believe at one time there might have been a bounty on hawks, I can't remember.

    Today we know that all wildlife suffers from habitat loss with new malls and housing plans. And the fact that farming practices are different today. Every foot of land is managed to produce inome and gone are the days where fields are fallow or the old hedgerow is left.

And it's great to see the hawks, owls, and the eagle around here ;)

sandhills

We moved to my parents farm when I was ten and there was a road cut through the treeline that lead to a dam in the pasture, anyway an owl (what I'd call a barn owl) lived in a tree along the road and I used to love taking friends hunting back there because he'd take off and scare all billy heck out of them.  He (it) was big and lived in that same tree for years, had a screech owl fly by one early morning while sitting in a tree stand, he screeched, talk about making your hair stand up  :o!

Jeff

Here is a forum topic on a friend of mine's encounter with Screech Owls that some of you may find interesting.

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,37256.0.html
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WmFritz

Yup... that is a good thread. Gorgeous pictures your friend got.
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SwampDonkey

I didn't open the link, but I'm thinking of the owls that took up residence in a wood duck box. ;D
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clww

That was a terrific thread, Jeff! :) :) :)
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