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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 24, 2023 1:06:52 GMT
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Post by jackscrap on Apr 24, 2023 1:39:03 GMT
Excellent results Clive, the mother owl is so beautiful.
Your white pelicans are so different to the ones in Australia, fantastic lighting, right place, right time.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 24, 2023 1:59:31 GMT
Excellent results Clive, the mother owl is so beautiful. Your white pelicans are so different to the ones in Australia, fantastic lighting, right place, right time. Thanks Jacki. Was lovely late-day light and the birds were cooperative. Your pelicans have big eyes as I recall. The amazing thing about these huge birds is how gracefully they fly. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Apr 24, 2023 2:18:48 GMT
Clear and quite brisk here last night = 37°
An Owl sitting atop our steel flue/smokestack woke me up about 1:AM and constantly "hooted" for about an hour and a half.
I hadn't heard an Owl around here in ages until a few nights ago when I bet there were a dozen scattered around within hearing.
These and the one last night weren't the Whoo Whoo Whoo-are-you Owls; I really don't know how to describe the racket they make.
I hope they hang around.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 24, 2023 2:28:06 GMT
They are cool to have around. Hope so for you! And they eat pails of mice.  |
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Post by cats4jan on Apr 24, 2023 11:10:43 GMT
The White Pelicans have decided to visit Florida for the summer. For the last 7 or so years, they have made the pond behind my house their summer home. Although the brown pelicans are a staple of Florida, I had never seen white ones until they showed up in my backyard.
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Post by kdcintx on Apr 24, 2023 20:57:34 GMT
American White Pelicans migrated through North Texas in February. Stayed about 2 weeks. I was surprised at how big they are. i.ibb.co/fHRRRRJ/pelican.jpg |
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Post by Jim on Apr 24, 2023 22:02:58 GMT
Had a some nice photo ops the past three days. A few were added to my gallery. Notes with each photo. Beautiful shots, Clive. Interesting info also. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 24, 2023 22:50:07 GMT
I was surprised at how big they are. They are huge! Yet fly so gracefully. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 24, 2023 22:50:57 GMT
Beautiful shots, Clive. Interesting info also. Thanks Jim. |
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Post by tourerjim on Apr 25, 2023 12:40:15 GMT
Very nice...👍
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Post by BuckSkin on Apr 26, 2023 2:22:08 GMT
They are cool to have around. Hope so for you! And they eat pails of mice. :)
Well, I hunted me up some YouTube videos and listened to bunches of owl sounds; and, to my ear, the closest to what I heard both times, the one on our roof and the dozen or more in the distance a few nights before, is the Great Barred Owl; some sources just call it a Barred Owl.
I need to get my little sidekick practiced up on her hoot-owl call and see if she can mimic their call and then call up a big owl gathering.
I thought about going to the pet snake store and buying a couple hundred mice to turn out (for when the herd of owls gather); however, just recently, a 37-yr-old local woman was feeding a mouse to her pet snake; the mouse bit her; and, she got sick from the mouse bite and died deader than a doornail -- over a mouse bite. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 26, 2023 2:39:42 GMT
the closest to what I heard both times, the one on our roof and the dozen or more in the distance a few nights before, is the Great Barred Owl; some sources just call it a Barred Owl. Barred owls are sure pretty. They are in Alberta but not out here in the plains. If you have a cellphone download an app called Merlin. Here. It is amazing. You can upload a photo for ID but the neatest feature is the "sounds ID." Once turned on it starts to "listen" to bird sounds and provides a running list of all the species it hears. It is very cool. |
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