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Look what I found lurking on my fence. There is a pair of them that live in my yard. The female is camera shy. I'd bet they weigh 18 to 20 pounds a piece.
Bob....
Hey anouncer, good pic. Looks like you took it around dusk. I have this pair living around my place here some where. We see them all the time. I am not familiar with "Barred Owls". These guys we've got are barn owls, but they are bigger than I am used to seeing. When I was growing up we had owls in the barn loft all the time. They actually feed off rats and mice I guess. We sure had a smaller population of rats when the owls were around. I also have never seen them tame enough to feed. This pair we've got are pretty tame. I can get close but there comes a point where I'm close enough and they fly, as the one did in the pic.. Thanks for sharing. Bob...
he is gorgeous! you guys were lucky to get such good pics.... they sure do keep down the rodent population.....
Oval... if ya get hungry i will send you a Happy meal. leave the damn birds alone! did you see your blue eyed pic? roflllllllllll
birds are interesting if you get a chance to watch them. the love doves, peace doves... you dont want to be another dove trying to share a meal and the guys are VERY aggressive when they want sex! wham bam and no thank you...just more...all the time more!!!!!!!!!... nasty birds.
vultures and eagles... they share
what are you oval... a dove or a vulture? lol
BONEY... don't you answer....lol
Well I guess that explains why they are so big, they ain;t barn owls. I had never heard of a "Barred Owl". Guess I learn something new all the time. I thought these guys were awful big for barn owls. Before these guys came around about 4 years ago I'd never seen such a big owl. They came just before Charly and have been here ever since. They sure do look over our little dogs. They weigh about 51/2 or 6 LBS a piece. Probably look like big rats to them. I know Momma likes the Owls, but if they mess with her dogs, she'll learn how to use my shot gun. LOL!
I must be a dove cause I make love, not war. I see tons of hawks and owls. Im in the bush-hogging business and these birds of prey know exactly what I am and what i do. Whenever I pull up to a job they are already circling. I have cattle egrets follow me down the long dirt road to a 6 acre piece of property that I maintain.
To birds John Deere=easy meal.
Nothing is like watching a hawk, or an owl (yes even in the daytime) swoop down and grab a field mouse. Cattle egrets love grasshoppers.
Hey kevin, We've got 2 familys of eagles 1 south of me and another right down the road from my church. I have tried to get pics but, I can't get close enough to even see what it is on the pic. I need a longer lens I guess.A buddy of mine is the forman on a ranch in my community and he regularly sees Eagles feeding on kill in the pasture. He says they feed with the buzzards. I have never seen that. Do you have any Eagles around S.C.? Bob....
We have a nest of bald eagles on the island behind my dads house. Years ago I had a photo of it sitting on the fence in the back yard. Every once in a blue moon I will see one flying around. I see a lot of eagles though.
One thing about bush hogging is im always around nature. Sometimes too much, after snake bite, and wayy to many encounters with yellow jackets.
I know what you mean. I have buddy behind me here that makes a living
bush hogging. You must live in the country too. They can have their citys. Give me wide open spaces and nature. I took the dogs out a little while ago and the larger of the 2 owls was on my electric service wire eye balling my little dogs. He watched every move they made. Ones a Maltese and the other is a little Yorky. The owl is 3 times as big as my dogs. I looked up a Barred owl and it sats they get up to 30 to 35 lbs. A big bird.
That was really nice, thanks. Wish I had them in my backyard here on Merritt
Island but all I get are baby posseums and mama posseums under my shed which drive my dogs nuts. I once almost petted one thinking it was one of my cats sitting on the fence, there was no moon that night and dark.
But I remember when I was little and still living in Mississippi and would come to Deland every year for the summer to be with my mom's parents and they would have owls out in the woods. I loved hearing them sing at night. My brother and I would swing on the vines out there and have a grand time and now it is part of Stetson University and the woods are gone and they moved the house somewhere else in Deland. Every night we would walk to the fountain at Stetson to watch it change colors and go fishing at Hall Creek. Every summer my grandparents would rent a cottage on New Smyrna Beach for us which cost 25.00. We would swim, fish, hunt for shells, crabs, and gather perriwinkles so my grandmom could make perriwinkle soup or mix it with grits and fry it in cakes. The people who owned the cottage offered it to my grandfather for $500.00 and he thought that was too high and did not buy it. Boy, would he be surprised how much it would be worth today.
But I love your owls and they brought back many wonderful memories of my visits to Florida when I was young. And all those summers that we came, we never did go thru a hurricane but had the afternoon rains. We always waited until they were gone to go to the beach. But I remember my grandmother would gather glass balls after hurricanes on the beach from the fisherman's nets and I still have some today. That was before they used plastic.
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