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[randomdreams]

As I was leaving work, this Pretty Good Horned Owl buzzed me, and then settled into a tree. I'm sorry I don't have a better camera in the car.

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[ranunculus]

Owl!!

[darkoshi]

Izza cute little birdy.

[asakiyume]

That Pretty Good Horned Owl looks like it's bracing itself against a stiff cold wind. I love the light shining just under him.

[marahmarie]

I love owls. We have at least a few around here. We hear them more than see them (mostly in the wee hours, just yelling at each other) but how I love them all the same.

[amaebi]

Oooooh!

I keep seeing owls and big raptors, but I'm not good on ID from any distance. :P

[randomdreams]

If I'd merely seen this perched in the tree I would have thought it was a hawk, but it was the swoop and seeing its head exposed that made me realize I'd finally gotten to see the guy who yells at me most nights.

[randomdreams]

It was so very cold. I felt badly for him.

[randomdreams]

I hear them constantly, but it is so rare to see them. Opposite of hawks: I see dozens of hawks every day, but only rarely hear them yelling at each other.

Very rarely, I can whistle at a hawk and it'll turn around and look and fly over to where I am. Maybe once out of every 50 times.

[asakiyume]

Yeah, when the weather gets this cold, there should be a moratorium on interspecies conflict (and eating each other) and everyone should huddle together.

[malterre]

So cool you caught a pic

[marahmarie]

Neat. I can't whistle (and will throttle the first person who says "It's easy. Just put your lips together and blow") so calling a hawk is beyond my capabilities (but we do have a few around here, too).

[randomdreams]

I'm not sure whether this is better or worse, but the hawk whistle isn't a lips-together whistle at all. It's done with my tongue jammed up against my teeth in a way similar to how a police whistle works, and makes a similar sound: very high pitched. This is how I first learned to whistle, and only learned the normal type many years later.

[randomdreams]

He was very obliging in his timing.
he was yelling at me again tonight but not showing himself.

[corvi]

OWL FRIEND!

[marahmarie]

Huh, that's interesting. Though I can't do any of the whistles (except by accident, which has happened).

[marahmarie]

Agreed (especially on the eating each other moratorium, which I can only wish might become permanent for all of us).

[darkoshi]

> This is how I first learned to whistle, and only learned the normal type many years later.

Me too, sort of. The way I whistled was with my tongue against my palate, not against my teeth. Or with my tongue curved in on itself. Nowadays I can still whistle a few different ways, but not very well with any of them.

[myka]

hi owly