I hear a screech owl right now outside my window.

[Denninmi]

Pretty cool. They're actually still quite common hear, just rarely seen or heard.

[marzipanni]

1. I love to hear an owl in the night, when everything else is quiet. Here's an owl sound clip page...

Megascops asio - Eastern Screech Owl (scroll down about 1/4 of the page)

http://www.owlpages.com/sounds.php

[mikeytherat]

2. We've got some Great Horned owls here down by the lake - hoot, hoot, hoot, hooooooooooooooooooooot!

Love it.

mikey_the_rat

[ashling]

3. That's a hoot

[HopeHoops]

4. We've got some kind of owl in the nearby stand of trees, but not screech - OH FLICKERS!

The flickers had a clutch! There are at least four chicks, but they're flying now and mostly hanging out around our garden (good eats). I didn't even know we had a mating pair until I saw the chicks in the air. My wife's got a killer pair of binoculars and damn are those things cute. I know they'll move on soon, but hopefully the parents will hang around and treat us again next year.

[marzipanni]

6. Flickers are so beautiful

One late afternoon I was at the park down the street throwing a frisbee for my dog at the outdoor amphitheater and a flock of about a dozen large birds landed on the grass expanse below the rise we were standing on.
The sun was low and made them look very golden, and I realized that they were Flickers. I had previously never seen any more than one at a time.


I found a pair of young Flickers on flickr, if anyone reading this wants a quick look-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturescare/7472672734/

[HopeHoops]

7. We've had the parents visit our bird bath. They're big birds, and damn are they pretty, AND...

We are regularly visited by five or six bluebirds at a time. A couple of days ago there was a falcon on the high-tension wires and a month or so ago one swooped in between our house and the neighbor's and no more than 10 feet over our heads (did a tight u-bee). There are generally a good supply of hawks, red tail and otherwise, and turkey vultures are everywhere. The binoculars come in handy.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. If it happens 6 nights in a row.

She's coming to you, I know.
And on Wildfire, you're both gonna go.

[byeya]

8. In the southern mountains, September and early October are the best times to hear screech owls.

It seems that March is best for Great Horned owls and Barred owls.
I really like to hear them.

[grasswire]

9. hmm, I wonder why I haven't seen any owls

We have a pair of bald eagles with one offspring this year. Lots of seagulls on the water. Canada geese up the yazoo. Great heron. Assorted other birds. But I will have to look into the possibility of owls.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Lucky you.

[Angry Dragon]

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