A Very Cool Visitor (Tons o' Pics)

That is AWESOME! Good for you!:eek:
 
Awesome pictures. I've been listening to a couple of owls at night lately. No pics though. I've never seen 'em like that during the day.
 
I love owls. We used to have them in the woods near my house all the time in New England. We certainly didn't have a problems with rodents (or stray cats, for that matter).

Funny story: A friend and myself we walking in the woods one night near Halloween (so the hardwoods were bare), and there was no moon out. He's walking around making sounds like a cat getting knocked around. All of a sudden we hear a whoosh! And a flippin owl pulls up short, just behind his head, talons out, and is beating the hell out of him with its wings. What fun I had in those woods!
 
Those are awesome pictures! Barred owls are my favorites--we have a lot of them around here. :)
 
Very cool! I love big birds in general, usually the most common I see at work are Buzzards, Hawks, and Pileated woodpeckers. On occasion we see Turkeys which is really cool.
Of course I've got a pretty large bird in my back yard but he goes "cock a doodle doo" a lot and is always jumping the Hens. :)
 
Fantastic pictures! I have a set of barred owls that live at my place now. I hear them screaming obscenities to each other and sometimes I join in. They are one of the few owls with brown eyes, and are named for that bars on their chest. In Linville Gorge, I once spot lighted one that had a pinkish chest. I asked my bird buddy and he said that that sometimes happens from eating massive amounts of crayfish. I believe it too, as those crayfish are everywhere over there. Like raccoons, they do pretty well in urban environs. They try to stay away from great horned owl home ranges, though both will live in the same area.

here is a cool little PDF:
http://www.umass.edu/landeco/pubs/mcgarigal.fraser.1985.pdf
 
Amazing pictures, thanks for posting. I've only ever seen an owl in the wild once, it landed in a tree about 15 feet from me, I couldn't believe it. They're amazing creatures. I can often hear them at night, it's crazy how far the sound can travel.
 
Thanks guys. It has definitely been fun. The particular owl in the picture will come and hunt for 3-5 hours at a time in the afternoon. Then it moves on to different hunting grounds dusk. He was here again this evening for almost 5 hours.
 
That's pretty cool. It's hard to get close to owls - the only ones I have been able to get close to are burrowing owls.
 
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