[Firedup6975]

Originally Posted by David Jones

No owls, but plenty of other raptors. There's a big red tailed hawk that keeps the little critters running. The crows drive it crazy.

I have a nesting pair at the back of our property. Last year they had babies, now they’re back again. We very few ground animals like rabbits, squirrels, snakes and rodents. I love the birds, buthe hawks will grab them right off of the feeders.

[SRR]

I was working behind my shop one night and saw a rat on my neighbors patio roof and thought about getting my pellet gun and shooting when a large Owl came out of no where and landed on it. The Owl noticed me and just glanced at me and took off. Awesome birds.

[shaker455]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

We put up a house specifically for a barred owl but, sadly, no takers yet.

K

The one in my back yard has been here for at least 6 years.

Here's how they sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fppKGJD3Y6c

There are more than one and when they do this laughing thing in middle of night sounds eerie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzhSxhhAYbE

[shaker455]

Confirmed!
There is a small young owl in the Birch tree hollow / nest and I saw the parent in a pine tree not far away
I'm thinking time for some social distance

[SR-71]

When my dad and I were farming my grandparents farm we were out on the far side of the property and saw what looked like a calico cat tangled in the barb wire fence with a bird. As we got closer I saw that it was a great horned owl. It was dead from a dive gone wrong getting caught in the fence. The legs we over a foot long and looked like a yellow cat but with huge talons as sharp as needles. The body was at least a foot and a half tall and a wing span of six feet. I held it up with a leather work glove with the points of the talons poking into it. So sad to see a majestic predator die like that.

[77 TRASHCAN]

Originally Posted by SR-71

When my dad and I were farming my grandparents farm we were out on the far side of the property and saw what looked like a calico cat tangled in the barb wire fence with a bird. As we got closer I saw that it was a great horned owl. It was dead from a dive gone wrong getting caught in the fence. The legs we over a foot long and looked like a yellow cat but with huge talons as sharp as needles. The body was at least a foot and a half tall and a wing span of six feet. I held it up with a leather work glove with the points of the talons poking into it. So sad to see a majestic predator die like that.

That's the type of owl, I saw!!!

[Bill H]

This young lady had 3 chicks in the window box of one of my relatives in Geel, Antwerpen Province ,Belgium two months ago and he said they like to watch his TV