Owl moved in the house we made

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:24 am

Very happy to see a owl in the house we made a few weeks ago.

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:26 am

Smart bird.

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:59 am

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:34 am

Very cool!

-Stretch

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:43 am

keeping watch, that's a good thing . . . night eyes

Post by **Chuck 100 yd** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:50 am

That is sooo cool !

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:33 am

That's great Lenn, we put up a box in the barn hoping a Barn Owl would take up residence, three years on and no takers. . .

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:15 am

Thanks guys, this is a Barred owl.
I think there should be two around male and female.

It took off somewhere now, i`ll try and get more pics later.

marlinman93 · Post by **marlinman93** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:25 am

Not often that a newly hung box gets a tenant this quickly. Owls are so cool!

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:32 am

It`s right in the yard by the bird feeders too, they don`t seem very afraid of humans.
Hope she lays some eggs.

Merle · Post by **Merle** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:34 am

did you put in any "bait" to entice them?

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:38 am

Merle wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:34 am did you put in any "bait" to entice them?

She can`t have it that easy, we built the dern house for cripes sakes.

Old No7 · Post by **Old No7** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:44 am

Pitchy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:24 am Very happy to see a owl in the house we made a few weeks ago.

And that proves the old adage about "A Wise Old Owl!"

GLAD to see you back here posting Lenn!

Old No7

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:20 pm

Thanks Old No 7.
Been watching and there`s a owl coming every so often and sticking it`s head in the door so betting that`s a male feeding her on the nest.
Doesn`t stay there long enough to snap a picture.

Bronco · Post by **Bronco** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:39 pm

Kewl

3leggedturtle · Post by **3leggedturtle** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:53 pm

I always considered it a blessing to see an owl during the day..

Pitchy you need to start an Owl cam! Todd/3leg

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:54 pm

Thanks guys, i have my new night vision camera set up on a tri-pod so we`ll see.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 1:26 pm

Got a few pictures that arn`t very clear.
I`m shooting from in the house through a window, the picture was clear in the view so i`m not sure why it`s fuzzy.

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:00 pm

Very cool

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:03 pm

Thanks, the hole in the entrance is six inch in dia. for kind of a reference of the size of the owl.

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:05 pm

Awesome Pitchy !! did You put and bedding in it ?

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:20 pm

.45colt wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:05 pm Awesome Pitchy !! did You put and bedding in it ?

Yepper put wood shavings in it.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:46 pm

That's great! Glad they found it so fast.
The call of an owl is said by my ancestors to be a sign someone you know has left this place. You better put up a SHHHHH! sign by the box.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:01 pm

GunnyMack wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:46 pm That's great! Glad they found it so fast.
The call of an owl is said by my ancestors to be a sign someone you know has left this place. You better put up a SHHHHH! sign by the box.

Back in 03 when my mother passed and she loved owls a owl landed right outside the window and sat there looking at me.
Haven`t seen a owl since then until now so this is kinda interesting.
Thanks Gunny

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:20 pm

Nice!
That'll keep the mice and squirrels under control.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:29 pm

Thanks Jay, seen a gray squirrel looking in the box he better watch out.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:04 pm

Haha yup! That ole owl will make fast work of him!

piller · Post by **piller** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:21 pm

Very cool. Owls are good at keeping rodents under control, so I consider them to be a good neighbor. Never had one bother me in any way.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:26 pm

That gray came back and was sittin on the owls roof, we heard some hootin then here he came and landed on the roof chasing the gray away but he didn`t attack it.

marlinman93 · Post by **marlinman93** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:54 pm

Pitchy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:29 pm Thanks Jay, seen a gray squirrel looking in the box he better watch out.

That's called fast food delivery.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 6:03 pm

that squirrel came back two more times and the owl swooped down and chased it off but never attacked it. strange.

Old No7 · Post by **Old No7** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 6:57 pm

Pitchy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:01 pm
GunnyMack wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:46 pm That's great! Glad they found it so fast.
The call of an owl is said by my ancestors to be a sign someone you know has left this place. You better put up a SHHHHH! sign by the box.
Back in 03 when my mother passed and she loved owls a owl landed right outside the window and sat there looking at me.
Haven`t seen a owl since then until now so this is kinda interesting.
Thanks Gunny

The SAME thing happened after my wife's Mom passed -- both of them loved owls -- a cute little Saw-whet Owl showed up on the power pole outside our house that evening after the funeral... My wife was in tears, and I was thinking "this is a little weird", but I also knew it was something very special. And we never saw an owl there before or again...

Old No7

hondo1892 · Post by **hondo1892** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:14 pm

That's pretty cool. I didn't know that owls would use bird houses.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:16 pm

Cool story No7.
Just went out with the night vision, nothing moving around the owl house but got a shot of a deer at 50 yards total dark.

BenT · Post by **BenT** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:52 pm

We have one in our wood duck house. The wife went up the tree to clean it out and the little guy was crouched in the corner trying to figure out what was going on.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:17 am

BenT wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:52 pm We have one in our wood duck house. The wife went up the tree to clean it out and the little guy was crouched in the corner trying to figure out what was going on.

No kidding they have their young early huh.

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:16 am

Need for owl human social distancing.....

https://www.audubon.org/news/was-owl-re ... er-mystery

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:16 am

I`ve heard everything now.

piller · Post by **piller** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:40 am

A Who-dunnit.

Old No7 · Post by **Old No7** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:33 pm

Pitchy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:16 am I`ve heard everything now.

Wow, me too, that "Owl defense" is cRaZy CrAzY for sure...

Then again, I WAS once dive-bombed by a hawk while predator hunting with a hand-held call. It got my hat and finally dropped it maybe 300 yards away...

Old No7

piller · Post by **piller** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:56 pm

A type of raptor called a Mississippi Kite nests and hatches its young in one of the parks in Liberal, KS. They used to dive bomb us when the Parks Department employees were mowing the grass. After being bumped once, one of the female employees started using her tennis racket as protection. It took a few times of her knocking some of them down before they started leaving us alone.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:01 pm

She was sitting up in a tree and a couple crows started bothering her, one isn`t any more, hurray pellet gun.

Merle · Post by **Merle** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:03 pm

Pitchy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:01 pm She was sitting up in a tree and a couple crows started bothering her, one isn`t any more, hurray pellet gun.

good shooting!

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:14 pm

Owls are great neighbors. Great job Lenn!

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:49 pm

Thanks Bill, gray squirrel just bit the dust, don`t mess with my owl.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 3:37 pm

No we didn`t eat it the owl did.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:15 pm

Boy that night vision you have is pretty darn good!

I used to call for foxes from my tree stand until one evening an owl took my Stetson off my head! Now I only call from the ground!

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:26 pm

Thanks Gunny so far so good with the Bestguarder.
That would be crazy.

M. M. Wright · Post by **M. M. Wright** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 9:38 pm

Where we live here is the Cherokee Nation and the Cherokee consider the owl to be evil or the bringer of death. If an owl shows up, someone is going to die. I moved my first nation bride into a house and that night an owl screamed right outside our bedroom window. The next day I moved her back to town. We have Great Horned Owls, Barred Owls and those cute little Screech Owls that scream like a red headed woman being run through with a red hot poker. Just happen to be near when one of those lets loose and I'll bet you can't keep your feet still.

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Thu Mar 19, 2020 1:07 am

I once read of an english anglican missionary family arriving at a cree/metis village in canada and given the royal treatment of the first tasty bits from the boiling cauldron.....the hosts served up what looked to be a whole human baby......the english lady swooned and fainted of course......I

It was really nothing more than a local delicacy known as great horned owl....plucked and debeaked and boiled, the eye set and spacing made it look eerily like a human infant......