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Wednesday, January 11. 2023

Barred Owl

January is a good time for listening for owls. If they are active enough, you can see them in daytime too. 


By coincidence, two friends sent me pics of Barred Owls last week. They are not rare. I've watched a pair for years using an old crow's nest in a Hemlock grove in Massachusetts. 


About Barred Owls. 


Heard, or seen, one lately? 

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 14:30 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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I live in Missouri and when I went out the side door this morning to take out our dog one gave me a morning Hello Hoot. We live with woods on our land but they tend to move about not in the heavier woods going down to a ravine but the thinner strip of woods encircling our acreage. We love to hear them talking to each other in the night around our house. Never could see him this morning. Last house in the woods one would come up around the house and not worry about being seen. I have pictures of those.
#1 JC on 2023-01-11 16:02 (Reply)
"Who cooks for y-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-u?"
#2 Lee Also on 2023-01-11 20:58 (Reply)
They're funny critters. We have a few that converse with each other across the forest behind the house, al through the night. I have a picture of one as my cell phone wall paper. I was crossing the creek one day, and focused on where to place my feet so I didn't bust my *ss, and when I happened to look up, there was one sitting on a cedar branch at eye level, about 8 ft away. Just looking at me, in that unruffled way that owls have. He patiently let me snap a few pix and then go about my way without moving, except for blinking a few times. I read somewhere that owls swivel their heads because they can't move their eyes.
#3 Aggie on 2023-01-11 23:52 (Reply)
Easy to approach at dusk; take yours steps between the hoots; the owl is close and low. Low even though the sound rolls up to the top of the trees.
#4 SF jeff on 2023-01-12 01:00 (Reply)
Heard one while hiking through Cormier Woods in Uxbridge a few months ago. It was a pleasant counter to the roaring lion I could hear at Southwicks Zoo a few miles away.
#5 Maniac on 2023-01-12 09:01 (Reply)
Saw one yesterday sitting on the railing of a bridge crossing a small ravine near our place. Between the Barreds and the Great Horneds, we've got them all around us. Warmer weather has them busy ... lots of varmits poking their heads up wondering if Spring is nigh.
#6 Nat Brooks on 2023-01-12 09:24 (Reply)
When we were living in southern Michigan many years ago, the annual January Thaw happened (usually lasts a week or less when the temperature rises above freezing and the snow begins to melt), and I opened a window one night during a full moon. The woods beside the house were full of owls hooting away. I don't know how many there were, but I counted at least six or seven in different locations. I don't know what kind of owls they were, but they didn't sound like little ones.

Meeting up for a hot time in the old woods, perhaps? I don't know, it was magical.
#7 RebeccaH on 2023-01-12 14:50 (Reply)
Owls like to fly at night at a level about two inches over the top of a Freightliner windshield. I got 3 or 4 that way over the years, BAM! including one beauty that I found on the passenger side step.
#8 George on 2023-01-12 16:55 (Reply)
I haven't seen any recently here in CT. But my sister had a pair take up residence in a hollowed out tree a couple of years ago. Then some time later she found the wing of a barred owl. The vet who takes care of her horses said she most likely also has a great horned owl in the neighborhood. Apparently they consider the barred owl a competitor and are known to kill them.
#9 Verde on 2023-01-16 09:00 (Reply)

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