I’m a professional ornithologist. I captured and banded this owl as part of a project tracking their migration through the Great Lakes region of New York. After I banded it, I released it.
I saw one up close on my bird feeder years ago. It was just beautiful. Darker colourings, multiple sades of brown feathers with creamy contrasts. I don't think it was after birds because mice & other little ground creature came to the feeder to get what spilled over. It was a magic moment.
Had to laugh! One time moons ago came across a baby owl in the road of some backwoods dirt track in a Ford van!
I stepped out to see if it was injured, dead of pitch black night and it flew straight at my face! Scared da crap outta me!!! Guess it were fine!
I'm staying at my house in the US this week and I just found out it has a screech owl in the woods behind it. I'm equal parts excited and contemplating randomly firing in the direction of the relentless screeching at 1am.
My son had one visit him outside his dorm room in Halifax last month! It flew into the window, so it sat there and had a quick recovery break. It flew away shortly thereafter
20+ years ago, I visited a sawwhet banding station with some friends, who knew the person doing the banding. Each owl was weighed, and the attached picture shows how it was done. It's something I've never forgotten.
I wondered what those little guys were called, had some decades ago outside my third floor apartment window, where they had a nest in a tree there. They are noisy at night, lol
Owls have a deep meaning to me. Sentinels. I got that from an ayahuasca trip in Portugal this past summer, and then a few days later, I bought this li'l f**ker in a gift shop in Faro <3
The sound in your video was what they were playing on speakers at night to attract the owls and the had fishing nets to catch them at the bird sanctuary
It’s odd, but I’m 63 years old, and aside from seeing owls at the zoo, I have never seen one in the wild. I have lived out in the country all my life, and never saw one.
We really need to leave wild animals alone cuz that owls going to land on somebody's shoulder on a nice evening walk in the woods and they are going to die from a heart attack.
I'll never forget my lifer...I was in a pine grove and saw whitewash on a low branch. Looked a little higher and saw another spot of whitewash. Higher still, and I was looking right into the eyes of a Saw-whet 6 feet away. Backed off immediately, but it is still one of my most treasured experiences!
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I stepped out to see if it was injured, dead of pitch black night and it flew straight at my face! Scared da crap outta me!!! Guess it were fine!
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