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Cutting on a snag in front of my house today when I noticed I was being watched by a critic.

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She (I think) didn't seem impressed at all with my work and even less so with the noise of the chainsaw.

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Amazing how close to nature you can be without realizing it.
Been a long time since anyone that pretty spent any length of time watching me!LOL

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Mike
 
Owls are cool. I had one land and hang out 10' from me in my tree stand.
I thought it was cool that we were both sitting there looking for meat to eat.
 
Kind of looks like a Great Horned Owl, they are about the only bird that will give a Bald Eagle a ration of crap.
 
Brian VT said:
Owls are cool. I had one land and hang out 10' from me in my tree stand.
I thought it was cool that we were both sitting there looking for meat to eat.
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I can beat that! :D

I was bowhunting near my house and it was near dark. I had heard the Owls hooing back there before as I did that evening. Now I'm sitting there not moving and I hear a whoosh whoosh whoosh sound. Turn my head to look and I'm face to face with a great horned. Looked to me a 5ft wingspan. Sucker started back-flapping his wings to get away and he swooped on by and I could have grabbed him he was so close. I almost fell from the stand. Scared the shizzle out of me!

Whan I was younger I had a souped up Mustang. Had a buddy with me in the front and two chicks in the back and was riding down a backroad. My bud was turned toward the girls talking. I seen a great horned in a tree in my headlights just coming into view. He was really tall so I'm hollering at the others saying "check out this big Owl". As I'm saying it, he swoops from the tree and is sailing low, right toward my car! Now I'm like, "oh sheit, look at this danged Owl!). Bout the time mybuddy turns he smacks the windshield and I don't know how it did'nt bust it out. He hit hard! I could almost see his eyes looking at me. :D These girls are screaming. Scared them all to death because they did'nt see it coming. I tried to warn them, lol.
We stopped and he was gone. I was only doing maybe 20-25mph.

I have crazy experiences with Owls, but I think they are awesome creatures. A real mysterious animal is the Owl. Coolest bird there is IMO.

Awesome pics too man. I'll rep you if I can!
 
hanniedog said:
Kind of looks like a Great Horned Owl, they are about the only bird that will give a Bald Eagle a ration of crap.
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No, it's a Screech Owl and they don't want ANYTHING to do with an Eagle or a Great Horned.
Their diet consists of mostly bugs and worms. A mouse is about as big as they usually fool with, although they are quite fond of small snakes and wren sized birds.
My wife and I rescued a baby from the roadway under this very tree about 4 years ago.
I wonder if the one above is it's mother?


Mike
 
Nice Pictures!!


Guy I work with was in his deer stand hunting, big owl came from behind him, ripped his hat
off his head and he has the scars to prove it. owl cut his head to the bone!

He said it lit about 50 yards away and if not for knowing where the bullet
mite go.......................of course he was hurting and mad as his nice fox fur
hat he had made was hung way up in a tree where owl dropped it.
He did get his hat back but had it sew it back up. I almost got on the floor
laughing when he told the story :)

I myself am a Hillbilly but this guy is a Hillbilly Deluxe and can take a story
and make it way funnier and he acts it out so well.


TT
 
hanniedog said:
Musta been a pretty life like hat to fool the owl.
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I think it's where you're sitting so still and maybe you flinch a finger or something. Move you head just a little. Fools the owl into thinking you're finger or head is a small animal. The way it acted when it was flying towards me was like it was looking to grab me, but when I moved it back-tracked and swooped away. TT, maybe you're friend should have moved quicker. :)

A Great Horned is a monster of a bird. I've seen them between three-four foot tall myself. You'll know one when you see it.
 
hanniedog said:
Musta been a pretty life like hat to fool the owl.
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I watched a show years ago, they were catching owls and tagging them.
It was very cold and snow on the ground, guy would lay down a 4'X4'
piece of ply wood. He had a toy mouse on a string. Owls would come
with in 1 or 2 feet of him after the mouse. The guy would throw a net
over them, if the owls would hang up on them they would get out a live
mouse. It was so cold the mouse would barely move but the fear of man
would be over come by hunger and owl would go after the mouse.



TT
 
Anthony_Va. said:
I think it's where you're sitting so still and maybe you flinch a finger or something. Move you head just a little. Fools the owl into thinking you're finger or head is a small animal. The way it acted when it was flying towards me was like it was looking to grab me, but when I moved it back-tracked and swooped away. TT, maybe you're friend should have moved quicker. :)

A Great Horned is a monster of a bird. I've seen them between three-four foot tall myself. You'll know one when you see it.
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One winter I found one dead hung in a pasture gate, gate was made out of barb wire.
I would have never thought it would have ever happened.

We have gobs of owls in the Ozarks, they do kill lots of mice.
But they are sure hard on wild life and our chickens.
The wild turkeys will let them fly in and land on same limb the turkey
is roosting on and kill them.


TT
 
I have two stories for you.

One, I also was in my tree stand bow hunting near dark when I hear a thump next to me on the limb. I didn't move a muscle for about a minute then turned my head ever so softly to see this owl about a foot away staring down at the ground looking for small prey. I watched him for 5 minutes and he never knew I was there. Then I quietly sniffed and he turned to look at what made the noise. I still didn't move but he picked me up but didn't exactly know what I was but he slowly moved away and stopped about 4 feet from me. He bobbed his head back and forth trying to figure out what I was. I never moved. Eventually he sailed away.

Next, I was pheasant hunting in Kansas and after my buddy and I were done hunting we were heading home down a dirt road after dark. When a flash across our hood showed a big owl with another smaller white owl in its talons. Well that owl was startled just as much as us and he dropped the white owl after nearly missing our windshield. We stopped to go look at the white owl laying in the road. It was a beautiful bird. We left it laying there hoping the big owl would come back for his dinner.
 
Trigger-Time said:
One winter I found one dead hung in a pasture gate, gate was made out of barb wire.
I would have never thought it would have ever happened.

We have gobs of owls in the Ozarks, they do kill lots of mice.
But they are sure hard on wild life and our chickens.
The wild turkeys will let them fly in and land on same limb the turkey
is roosting on and kill them.


TT
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Hey Trigger-Time, you live in the Ozarks? So do I. I'm in Springfield, Mo.
 

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