[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Predators
- From: "Peggy" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <myjoygs@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:06:10 -0500
If it was big and had tufts where the ears should be, it was probably a
great horned owl. Screech owls are actually pretty small. All owls can
screech in an awful manner...most of them can "hoo hoo hoo," but for the
most part, they're silent......altho sometimes, if it's really quiet, you
can hear the wings moving the air when the great horned owl flies over your
head...... A great horned owl can carry off a good sized puppy., and yes,
they CAN and DO fight with other birds, esp. over meat........
Owls usually only HUNT at night, but they are out and about at dawn and
dusk...that's usually when you can hear them,
and you might see one on its way back to its nest at dawn, or on the way to
a good hunting ground if it's dusk...but they
really do their best hunting at night. If you see an owl carrying
something off from your yard during the day, that's going to be a 1 in a
million sighting.........
We have owls and hawks here, herons, eagles, all sorts of
birds.......and probably coyotes a little further out. After all,
there are black bears living in northern virginia all around Dulles
airport.... most people really have no idea of the kind of wildlife
around them. There are birds of prey living in the heart of Manhattan and
Washington, DC, too...
just that most people don't notice.
Peggy
----- Original Message -----
From: <myjoygs@xxxxxxx>
> Since we are talking hawks and owls, I have a question. I have a small
> preserve in back of my house. I have deer, hawks, heron, feral cats all
> kinds of birds. I am pretty sure I have an owl. When I go out at night
> to bring the dogs in the outside kennel in the house for the night, there
> are times I hear this god awful scream, screech its hard to explain. One
> morning while it was still dusk I was putting the dogs out and heard the
> scream, I saw eyes way up in a tree but couldn't make out what it was and
> it looked like something was fighting. Another time at dusk I saw two big
> black birds bomb diving something just sitting there on a branch. I was
> trying to make out what it was ran back in the house and got my camera
> with the zoom and still was having a hard time but concluded that it was
> an owl just don't know what kind. It was dark colored, very large like a
> cat and what looked to be tuffs on the ears. It was not a cat because
> the back of the owl there was no tail a
> nd was like v shaped almost. I also saw it move its head almost all the
> way around. I am thinking screeching owl, the sound is just blood
> chilling : ) Anyone have any ideas. I am in Ohio.
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