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Moon Potato: May 12, 2003

We had a ton of Short-eared Owls show up last winter. They're total dicks to each other and to other raptors, but they're fun to watch.
https://vimeo.com/118451566

# ¿ Oct 5, 2015 07:30

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 16:19

Moon Potato: May 12, 2003

Ozz81 posted:

Guys

GUYS

I'm staying with family and think they have a Great Horned owl living somewhere nearby. I can hear the "whoo-HOO-hoo-hoo" right outside the spare room window but can't tell where he is. Great Horned owls are best owls and have wicked looking tufty eyebrow things, and it's close to Halloween, and this is totally rad because I wanna find where he is and take some pics. Like, he sounds super close, either he's perched on the roof or he's in the neighbor's yard somewhere.

COME TO ME OWL AND SING A LULLABY, SHARE YOUR WISDOM

Where are you staying? The quadruple-whoo could be a Spotted Owl, which would be pretty neat - those are quickly being displaced by the spread of the Barred Owl and may not be around for too much longer.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2015 07:17

Moon Potato: May 12, 2003

We sometimes get Long-eared Owls in one of the wildlife areas around Humboldt Bay. The White-tailed Kites that nested in the same grove of trees would attack this one if it came out before sunset, so I only got to see it in the open during dusk.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2015 07:39

Moon Potato: May 12, 2003

Mom, you're supposed to knock before coming in here!

# ¿ Oct 11, 2015 19:57

Moon Potato: May 12, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibUzDIWhsFg

# ¿ Oct 21, 2015 03:05

Moon Potato: May 12, 2003

We're starting to get Burrowing Owls in the dunes for the winter. They're about the size of a large potato.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2015 08:12

Moon Potato: May 12, 2003

Wilford Cutlery posted:

It's a cool owl, but David G Hemmings needs to eat a dick for baiting wild animals.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2015 05:32

Moon Potato: May 12, 2003

Aesop Poprock posted:

Is that considered unethical in wildlife photography? I'm pretty sure the guys behind Planet Earth and the Life series have used a bunch of similar "unnatural" ways to set up their best shots for example

Especially for something like a Great Grey Owl that has to follow vole activity to stay alive, getting it used to being fed in a single spot can do a lot of damage. Getting predators accustomed to approaching humans is a bad idea in general. There are legitimate reasons to bait wild animals for wildlife studies (for example, that's how they find out where Spotted Owls nest so that occupied nests can be protected from logging or development), but those are done by trained wildlife technicians who take precautions to prevent disrupting the animals' lives. While there are photographers and videographers who bait their subjects, it's considered unethical from a conservation standpoint and is luckily falling out of fashion.

Anyway, back to owls. Fish owls are the fluffiest owls.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2015 01:06

Moon Potato: May 12, 2003

Short-eared Owls have returned to the fields around Humboldt Bay during the wet weather.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2016 06:57

Moon Potato: May 12, 2003

Owl hat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OVAP63lAKM

# ¿ Jan 19, 2016 07:28

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 16:19

Moon Potato: May 12, 2003

A Great Gray Owl has wandered far outside its normal range and discovered that we have a bunch of juicy voles in Prairie Creek Redwood State Park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNxqo4XUHyo

A pair of ravens were bothering it at one point, and after that it would pretend to be part of a log or a stump whenever it heard ravens approaching.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2016 09:50

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