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Out riding last night on my own and heard one when I stopped for a drink. Not heard any for a while and never in this wood before. I couldn’t resist trying to get a reply, so sent out my best impression. Result! 😊
Had a laugh thinking it was probably some other idiot making the owl noises back.
Reminded me of being a kid though, sitting out with my brother and Dad, trying to get the sound just right. Then that first time you get an answer.
Twit.
twoo
also last night, on our weekly group mtb ride 🙂
One of those night ride sounds that makes you glad you got up off the sofa!
last night, there are a pair of tawny owls that chatter away to each other in the woods behind my garden.
So, it was one of you two ..
Last night, and most nights! We have both barn and little owls in outbuildings. Lovely things!
Sadly found one of the barn owls dead in the garden the other day. No obvious signs of illness or injury.
Just about every night. Our house backs onto woods and you can hear owls all the time...
Can't say I've ever tried talking to them though. No idea if this is true but the twit-twoo noise is actually 2 owls communicating. One with the twit bit and one with the twoo...
Not sure about owls but if you hear a cuckoo it's easy to attract it by doing a cuckoo hoot with your hands, though I've never known if they fly over because they fancy me or because they think I'm invading their territory.
When was the last time you heard an Owl?
When I ‘it my ’and with my ‘ammer
About once a week at our place - woods in front seem to be a hangout for a tawny. If a neighbour joins them in the sycamores behind our house they often have a 'are you right?' and 'i am right.' conversation for a while.
This morning.
Most nights around us. And they do seem to respond if you get the call right.
I was out on the mtb at dusk a while back and a tawny tracked me for about 200m about 10 metres to my left. Just gliding along looking at me That was cool.
One of the saddest things I ever saw when driving home late one night, was a huge white owl, transfixed on the front of the roof rack on a builder's van, wings outspread in the slipstream, where it had been hit and trapped when it swooped low over the road.
Most nights. Regularly joined by one one just after twilight rides.
One of the saddest things I ever saw when driving home late one night, was a huge white owl, transfixed on the front of the roofrack on a builder’s van, wings outspread in the slipstream, where it had been hit and trapped when it swooped low over the road.
Meanwhile, Harry Potter is still waiting on a quote for his extension.
Sadly found one of the barn owls dead in the garden the other day. No obvious signs of illness or injury.
If you find a dead raptor of any sort please contact the Predatory Birds Monitoring Scheme - they'll send you a box to post it back in (pop it in the freexer while you're waiting) they are investigating the spread of chemicals through the food chain. You also get a post mortem report on your bird so you can find out why it died.
We have them in the woods behinnd our house so we hear them quite a lot.
I remember night riding in Delamere forest and a bloody big owl swooped right past us, what felt like inches from my head. I think I may have screamed. I don't remember it replying
EEEEEEEEEEK!
Rode alongside one this morning. He was searching a ditch for prey. Barn owl. See him regularly.
Never heard of that thepurist - thanks 🙂
Hear them regularly from our house too, occasionally seen if you do try to 'talk' to them. Lots of Beech trees here attracting rodents, which in turn...
When I was on a late night ride on the Ridgeway I saw a barn owl and a badger burst out of the same bush and flee. Wtf were you two up to eh?
Most nights here too. A couple of tawny. Plus in the mornings got a couple of woodpeckers hammering away. One landed on the lawn yesterday morning and then took off just as I switched the camera on. Next time. I'm no twitcher but it's still a real treat.
When I was on a late night ride on the Ridgeway I saw a barn owl and a badger burst out of the same bush and flee. Wtf were you two up to eh?
Mouse just described a Gruffalo?
there might have been less of a response to a 'when was the last time you didn't hear an owl' thread 🙂
there might have been less of a response to a ‘when was the last time you didn’t hear an owl’ thread
Well I am glad there are so many hooting an a howling*
* Not the Wild Beasts track 🙂
Mate in Spain has a Eurasian Eagle Owl that hangs out in a tree in his garden. We heard it weeks before it was seen - watched some videos to try and identify the noise heard most mornings and evenings.
They finally saw it when they realised which tree it liked, they were looking the wrong side of the house. It swoops across their entrance courtyard. To and from the tree.
They fear for their cat...
most evenings.
Also heard some strange owl like sounds one evening, pretty sure it wasnt a deer or dog, and looked online to hear owl sounds etc but still no idea what it was
Foxes shagging?
I hear them regularly but then I do commute through the forest. The Hawk Conservancy near Andover is well worth a visit if you are ever down that way (just off the A303), it's a good day out and (PSA) if your southbound the cafe is freely accessible and beats Fleet Services hands down, just check opening times.
Is that your American Indian name perchy?
Watch the Chelsea v SWFC match on Sunday
You will hear 6000 of them then
WAWAW
Is that your American Indian name perchy?
Yep. Any idea where I could get a bunghole for my tepee?
Most nights - there's one that lives in my garden.
we're out in the Sussex countryside and hear owls pretty much most nights. We've got an amazing barn owl that nests on the neighbouring farm - Wednesday pm we watched it hunting in the hedges opposite the house for a good 15 minutes. They're amazing.
Most nights - there is one that nests nearby.
Just about every night. Our house backs onto woods and you can hear owls all the time
This. Oh god this. All night every night.
Lovely to hear them actually.
Most nights – there’s one that lives in my garden.
🎶And his name Wiggly Twit-tawooo! 🎶
We've got a Tawny that hangs around our back garden so hear it most nights if I'm tinkering in the shed.
And have a regular Sparrowhawk visit and had a Merlin terrorising the sparrows last weekend 🙂
Most nights in the woods near the house, two call to each other.
Got one in the back garden (or the neighbours garden - cant quite tell). Haventa clue what sort it is, I've never seen it.
Most nights here too
And here. Our house backs on to an allotment which in turn boarders the canal. As sad as it sounds I’ll actualky stand in our bathroom listening to them calling, it’s a lovely sound.
The window next to my desk (at home) overlooks trees at the end of the garden. Over lunch yesterday I watched as an owl sat in a tree preening itself.
Also last winter, I awoke one morning to a perfect imprint of the owl on the window pane. You could clearly make out it's wee round face, beak and both it's outstetched wings with a wingspan of around 18". This happend during the heavy snowpocalypse in March last year. No sign of the bird in the morning so presume it got up and flew away.
Just about every night ..