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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Treize69 on March 27, 2009, 08:35:41 PM
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...and its really starting to creep me out.
Just thought y'all would wanna know that.
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...and its really starting to creep me out.
Just thought y'all would wanna know that.
How bad?
(http://www.planetfortress.com/tf2models/previews/Battle%20Grounds%2040K/ShotGun.jpg)
:noid
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Elvis would have done the same thing.
http://www.tmz.com/2009/03/27/elvis-pressley-flips-the-bird-for-20-grand/
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Not to mention shooting out TV's.
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...and its really starting to creep me out.
Just thought y'all would wanna know that.
Owls are cool. They eat critters.
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Oh, no doubt. But the quiet "Hooo... hooo... hoooHOOOO... hoooo" all night is getting kinda bizarre.
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Since owl's can turn their head around, try going outside and see if you can find it.
Then walk in circles around it making sure it is watching you. Wait for its head to spin right off and fall to the ground.
Now if the detached head starts hooting, then you have a very BAD problem.............
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I'm going out in the morning before I head off to the Fort and looking for owl pellets.
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Hmm, speaking of owl pellets (castings)...
Know the difference between owl castings and hawk castings?
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Best thing to do is buy a few small rodents and turn them loose out there at night. Then the owl will catch them and go to the secluded locations to eat them. The problem is when the owl returns looking for food.
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Since owl's can turn their head around, try going outside and see if you can find it.
Then walk in circles around it making sure it is watching you. Wait for its head to spin right off and fall to the ground.
Now if the detached head starts hooting, then you have a very BAD problem.............
LOL!!! :rofl
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The owl's glow in the dark?
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The owl pellets will have the skeletal remains of the small rodents inside, the hawks won't. The hawk has stronger digestive enzymes and you generally won't find much/any bone in it's castings.
The hawk will actually eat and digest large bones (rabbit/squirrel leg bones, etc) where even tiny bones of mice will show up in owl castings.
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When I was a kid (around 1974) my dad, myself, my brother, uncle Bill, and grandfather were all riding in Gramps Ford Bronco down a dirt road heading back to Rufus Oregon. If you have ever been to Rufus you would know it sits in the Columbia river gorge about 3 hours east of Portland on highway 84 just West of the John Day Dam. The area south of Rufus and above the gorge is is best described as rolling wheat fields, beautiful golden color rolling along the hills as far as the eye could see. That's where we were that day, and it was cloudless blue sky hell hot weather as well. There did exist a gully off our left about 100 yards from the dirt road with a stand of trees in it. Kind of unusual in that area. My Uncle Bill suddenly told my Grandpa to stop! which he did. Bill produced a shotgun (not sure why he had one, wasn't hunting season) and took aim at something in that distant clump of trees and fired a shot. He ran towards the trees and the rest of us followed. When we got into the stand if trees we found this giant great horned owl flopping around. I was amazed by this giant beautiful bird and very upset that my uncle had shot it but I didn't say anything. It was beautiful, and bloody and flopping around on the ground. My uncle, in his rabid "kill any wildlife he wanted to look at up close" attitude, managed to get his boots tied up with the talons on this very frightened and upset bird as he smashed the skull of this great feathered predator with the heel of his boot. What I remember most after that is how big the owls eyes were after popping out of the smashed skull :O
My uncle Bill........he was a nice guy by all outward appearances but he hurt a lot of people who loved him in his life as a result of acute alcoholism (he died at the age of 59 several years ago).
He sure screwed that owl over that's for sure. None of us would have ever seen that bird stashed away in those trees but Bill had the eyes of a hawk. Someday I will write about the time he shot a Red Tail hawk out of a tree top with a single shot from a .22 cal from a distance of at least 300 yards. The guy really was a tormented soul.
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That is usually the sign of imminent death.
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Could have told me that BEFORE I went to blackpowder training this morning....
Maybe its a bad sign for my date tonight.
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That is usually the sign of imminent death.
But only if there's been a hoot-owl howling by your window now....For six nights in a rowwww......She's coming for me, I know......
And on Wildfire we're both gonna go.....calling Wiiiiillllldfirrrre....
I now return you to your regularly scheduled decade
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But only if there's been a hoot-owl howling by your window now....For six nights in a rowwww......She's coming for me, I know......
And on Wildfire we're both gonna go.....calling Wiiiiillllldfirrrre....
I now return you to your regularly scheduled decade
:rofl :rofl :rofl :aok
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Oh, no doubt. But the quiet "Hooo... hooo... hoooHOOOO... hoooo" all night is getting kinda bizarre.
Sounds like a Great Horn Owl. Breading season should be done for them.
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Breading season should be done for them.
Good point. Layer the flavors. How do you season your breading? Salt, pepper, paprika maybe? And to that, panko or regular crumbs?
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Sounds like a Great Horn Owl. Breading season should be done for them.
The chicks here in Wisconsin are still down-covered, with just a few real feathers coming through.
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Could have told me that BEFORE I went to blackpowder training this morning....
Maybe its a bad sign for my date tonight.
NY may have a state law that you can not shot raptars and owls.
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NY may have a state law that you can not shot raptars and owls.
Regardless of what the state says, it's a federal violation, and a violation of international law. However, that hasn't always been true. Until roughly 1970 or 1971 the government would pay a bounty for shot raptors.
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Hooters gone wild! :rofl get the video cam out Treize. :D
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I don't really mind the soft hoots. Now if you want to know what will scare the pants off you at night try a screech owl. Was camping once looking for a nice place for a cat hole around 2100 or 2200. Found a likely spot and started digging. Then I heard the worst noise I have ever heard out in the woods almost didn't need the cat hole. :rofl
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"Nice set of Hooters you've got there!"
"Excuse me?"
"The owls, they're beutiful."
:rofl
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I don't really mind the soft hoots. Now if you want to know what will scare the pants off you at night try a screech owl. Was camping once looking for a nice place for a cat hole around 2100 or 2200. Found a likely spot and started digging. Then I heard the worst noise I have ever heard out in the woods almost didn't need the cat hole. :rofl
What you heard was a barn owl. a screech owl, or in your case from your location, eastern screech owl have a low whinny with husky sound or close to a whinnying horse. You could barley hear it.
Here is what a barn owl sounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58_8S5-tkoU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58_8S5-tkoU)
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Mine was a Horned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jVgldCwAk&NR=1
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Mine was a Horned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jVgldCwAk&NR=1
:aok, the most common owl.
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Yeah, I usually hear them in the Adirondacks, not in Rome. To hear them in the City is a bit unusual.
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Owls, freaky? (http://www.ihasaids.com/upload/data/1238441335.gif)
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Moot, that is showing their cutest side. The I might attack you at any moment side, nothing to worry about!