owls are trippy creatures...

poplars

poplars

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woke up by my plants this morning as usual, but I heard the sound of something that sounded like it had something caught in it's throat.

I get out of the tent and listen a little while, hear the noise a few more times it sounds like it's coming from a tree.

then I hear the famous owl sound....

fuckin trippy creatures I tell ya... anyone else have any crazy owl experiences?
 
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Tuxedotokerr

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In my area there's a bunch of owles that make a ruckus every night!

One night I was walking out to my car, trying to be quite because of people sleeping. Again, dead silent. As I approached my car, I heard this screech. It sounded like the owl had a loud speaker! I look up and there's a 3ft tall owl sitting in the tree right next to me! Big green/yellow eyes staring right at me. Pretty damn scary, and this wasn't the first one I've seen/heard. I can't explain the tone and volume this bird put out. I had to change clothes after this haha. Every now and then I'll see one sitting in a tree when I go in the woods. I don't think I could live anywhere else.

-tux
 
poplars

poplars

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yeah owls are kinda rare out here, I mean there are probably like 50-80 of them out here, but you don't see them often...

gotta say that was quite an interesting way to wake up though...

thanks for sharing your story man.
 
diesel15

diesel15

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lol, ilove owls especially going to sleep with them whoing, its so warm and comforting. but as a kid iused to watch MGM cartoons or Loony Toons(cant remember) and one of my favorite ones was with these singing baby owls and one of them used to sing his own little song when they paused. lol, he got a beating for it too.
 
poplars

poplars

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diesel15 said:
lol, ilove owls especially going to sleep with them whoing, its so warm and comforting. but as a kid iused to watch MGM cartoons or Loony Toons(cant remember) and one of my favorite ones was with these singing baby owls and one of them used to sing his own little song when they paused. lol, he got a beating for it too.
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haha nice... I watched shit like that when I was hella young... barely even remember....

hopefully this one sticks around... I've seen owls out here before, but they don't seem to be to common to my area atleast... probably in the more dense forest a few miles away.
 
Thebuddness

Thebuddness

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There's 2 or 3 always perched on a rooftop or telephone pole at night here. I walk my dog and they call to each from blocks away. I've seen them for years. It's like they know me and I have some connection with them.
 
poplars

poplars

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TwistedGenetics said:
Are you sleeping out in your lawn next to your plants, to ward off rippers and the like?
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I'm sleeping next to my garden yes, I live on several acres of land so my lawn is like 100 feet away from my garden, I'm sleeping under a tree on a patch of grass right by the garden. gonna be staying up till 3:30-4am every night till harvest from here on out though,better safe than sorry.
 
Thebuddness

Thebuddness

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poplars said:
I'm sleeping next to my garden yes, I live on several acres of land so my lawn is like 100 feet away from my garden, I'm sleeping under a tree on a patch of grass right by the garden. gonna be staying up till 3:30-4am every night till harvest from here on out though,better safe than sorry.
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I don't blame you, have to be like a bird, protecting her nesting babies!
 
mrboots

mrboots

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I used to frame houses in Tucson AZ, I came into work one day and we had an owl in the rafters of the house we were working on , the thing just sat up there all day and watched us work. We were making lots of noise but it didn't get scared, just sat there. it was gone the next day but it was pretty cool to see.

What kind of wierdos made that owl song?
 
CannaChameleon

CannaChameleon

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Your not the only people to like owls... have you ever heard of Bohemia Grove?
George Bush admits to worshiping an owl, look it up (youtube will probs do)
 
doublejj

doublejj

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Folsom Prison is scarry enough without the added suprise of having one of the estimated 100 barn owls that call Folsom Prisom home, suprise you!
Several times in the years that I worked there, these things scared the bejesus out of me. At night they would swoop out of nowhere. Giant white creature with 4ft wing span, comes screeching over your head! Phuck!
Several tower guards have almost shot them off the walls, they are so big!

peace
doublejj




[SIZE=+1]Barn owls[/SIZE], or "barnies", have white coloration when viewed from below, with buff-colored shoulders and head. They range from about 18 to 20 inches tall with a wingspread of 41 to 47 inches. Tiny barbs on the first feather of their wings help to make their flight incredibly silent. Often one glides past in utter silence, passing like a white ghost in the reflected light of a street lamp.

Another point of recognition is the barnie's heart-shaped face and total lack of "ears". With long legs and a skinny body, it looks as if it's wearing baggy shorts while perched. As is typical of owls, their enormous eyes endow them with superb night vision. These eyes are so large that they barely fit into the bird's head, leaving no space where other birds would have muscels to move their eyes. Owls compensate by moving their heads instead of their eyes to shift their gaze.
However, they don't depend only on vision. Researchers have found that barnies' hearing is so acute that they can accurately hunt and kill a mouse
in a totally darkened room. Through both sight and sound available they are magnificent hunters of nocturnal rodents; experiments show that it takes about 10 cats to match one barn owl.
Barnies are found world-wide, preferring to live in meadows and at the edges of wooded areas. Even city parks will do, but the blend of grassland and oak woodland makes El Dorado Hills a natural home for them. They like to nest in hollow trees, but even a hole in the ground or a building -- including a barn -- is a fine nesting spot. In an extreme case an estimated 100 barnies adopted an abandoned powerhouse on the grounds of Folsom Prison.
 
diesel15

diesel15

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did anybody notice that owls smell funny when you get close to them? like 2' - 6' maybe. iwent to the zoo and they smelt weird
 
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