Freaking owl is hooting outside my window again

[renard_ruse]

During the day I could run the hawks and other preditors that attack my songbird friends off. When I go out and look for this bastard owl I can't find it.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

During the day I could run the hawks and other preditors that attack my songbird friends off. When I go out and look for this bastard owl I can't find it.

You can't deal with the natural sounds of an owl?

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I'm somewhat adjacent to an elevated subway line that more or less runs 24 hours in both directions. It's not crazy loud but it's definitely audible, especially during the warmer months when I have windows and balcony door opened. I can still get to sleep or do my work/listen to music/watch entertainment at home just fine.

cowboy up, Renny!

 

[doowdniw]

During the day I could run the hawks and other preditors that attack my songbird friends off. When I go out and look for this bastard owl I can't find it.

Owls are nocturnal. Go out at night. You may have better luck.

 

[rockcasbah]

Owls are hard to find. I’ve had them for years in a thicket over in the south side woods and the hoots bounce off the open skylights... sounds like the owl is feet away.

I'm somewhat adjacent to an elevated subway line that more or less runs 24 hours

Nasty. Owls and loons are much better. Loons as in birds, not new yorkers.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Owl eyes should reflect light. Try a good flashlight. It should turn its head towards your sound and look at you. At least you'll know where it is.

 

[oneblueye]

hey...

During the day I could run the hawks and other preditors that attack my songbird friends off. When I go out and look for this bastard owl I can't find it.

My grandmother's people used to tell us that when you heard a owl outside your window at night someone in the family was going to die soon. When it happened in the daytime the death would happen that day.
Don't put too much stock in old wives tales but man, you just might be dead.

 

[Paul_Chance]

It's an omen! You need to sacrifice a chicken and make a cross out the leg bones. Or just have a BBQ chicken, either way is good. Unless you're a vegetarian, then you're doomed.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Owl soup is good.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Nasty.

No, shorty, that's just the infrastructure of a city.

You live in one and you get used to ambient noises, same as you would living in a countryside with a babbling brook.

Plenty of owls and various flying wildlife can also be found here in parks and other areas within the five boroughs.

 

[ryan8558]

from the internet otherwise known as "The Font of ALL Knowledge"


In most Native American tribes, owls are a symbol of death. Hearing owls hooting is considered an unlucky omen, and they are the subject of numerous 'bogeyman' stories told to warn children to stay inside at night or not cry too much, otherwise the owl may carry them away.

 

[hobbit.]

During the day I could run the hawks and other preditors that attack my songbird friends off. When I go out and look for this bastard owl I can't find it.

Not coming over all PETA here, but be careful what you wish for.

when i was kid there were probably dozens of them around here, woods and farmland all around (claim to fame at one point was the largest pig population in Europe.. FFS) plus a cemetery.

As a kid watching hammer house of horrors films, owl hoots scared the shit out of me.

now as someone old enough to be worried about various illnesses (early'ish onset Alzheimer's not least) and back living in the same house, the night time quiet is strange, there is also now a lack of bats, and the dawn chorus is so quiet.

farms and pigs have gone.

woods now managed as an 'amenity' (no rope swings allowed)

Cemetery is now getting fuller.

 

[FataMorgana]

During the day I could run the hawks and other preditors that attack my songbird friends off. When I go out and look for this bastard owl I can't find it.

Is it hooting through a fucking megaphone?

 

[jaF0]

Owl bet the bird is wiser than the OP.

 

[hobbit.]

Is it hooting through a fucking megaphone?

Marshall stack.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Back in like 2002 I was living just outside of Barrie, Ont and the town was overrun by owls. Hundreds of them were seen all over town. They decimated the seagull population. Owls are cool killers.

 

[FataMorgana]

Back in like 2002 I was living just outside of Barrie, Ont and the town was overrun by owls. Hundreds of them were seen all over town. They decimated the seagull population. Owls are cool killers.

And owls don't nick your chips like those fuckers.

 

[hobbit.]

cool killers.

two words not often used in the same sentence...

when i was in Plymouth an eagle owl escaped from a bird of prey centre, it was missing for weeks - the local cat population plummeted.

 

[rockcasbah]

No, shorty, that's just the infrastructure of a city.

You live in one and you get used to ambient noises, same as you would living in a countryside with a babbling brook.

Plenty of owls and various flying wildlife can also be found here in parks and other areas within the five boroughs.

Sounds like you're making the best of your situation; better days ahead!

 

[Philthy_Phil]

And owls don't nick your chips like those fuckers.

Right? There is a rest stop along the highway heading to northern Ontario where the seagulls prey on fries, or chips as you call them. I set my food on my cau to unlock my door, before key FOBs were standard, and the fuckers took every last fry in like 3 seconds. I hate them. Except for Jonathan Livingston.

 

[FataMorgana]

Right? There is a rest stop along the highway heading to northern Ontario where the seagulls prey on fries, or chips as you call them. I set my food on my cau to unlock my door, before key FOBs were standard, and the fuckers took every last fry in like 3 seconds. I hate them. Except for Jonathan Livingston.

I bet they've been raging during lockdown.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Sounds like you're making the best of your situation

There's no situation, it's just life.

If you're living, then you should be making the best of it by default.

Noises of the city or owls hooting, it's all the same to me. Your mileage may vary, of course.

 

[rockcasbah]

Owls don't increase rates of hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

 

[dolf]

During the day I could run the hawks and other preditors that attack my songbird friends off. When I go out and look for this bastard owl I can't find it.

Leave the owl alone, freak. They rarely take birds anyway! They generally go for rodents, reptiles, and other things that crawl on the ground. You prefer rats to the occasional hoot?

Wtf is wrong with you?

 

[jaF0]

Leave the owl alone, freak. They rarely take birds anyway! They generally go for rodents, reptiles, and other things that crawl on the ground. You prefer rats to the occasional hoot?

Wtf is wrong with you?

OP's afraid Hooty will come after him/her.

 

[rockcasbah]

Dolf seems obsessed about the owl’s relationships.