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04-23-2010, 09:21 PM
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experienced some road rage earlier this week during my morning commute
I ride a beach bicycle to work nowadays and had an issue the other morning I'd like to share. My commute consist of a 1/2 mile dirt driveway through 70 year old pines to a locked gate. After that it is about 300 yards of paved road onto another dirt road and then through the back gate at the plant. Takes about 15 minutes
 . Anyway, on this particular morning everything was going along as usual as I made my way to the gate, unlocked it and pushed the bicycle through. When I stepped back to lock the gate (with my head about 24" from the sphere at the same elevation) I heard something go to raising all kinds of heck. I looked up and there was the resident owl roosting on the sphere. He got all puffed up so I eased away from him and shined the bicycle headlight onto him and snapped this pic with the camera phone. I think I woke him up. Needless to say I did not get the gate locked that morning.edited to mention using a camera phone to snap the pic
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04-23-2010, 09:39 PM
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I love owls, they are beautiful and majestic birds... and they are silent when they fly....
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04-23-2010, 10:52 PM
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Whoa, Cool! It's about time for the owls to come back and roost around here soon, I cant wait. they hoot back and forth, it's very relaxing
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04-23-2010, 10:54 PM
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Nice! We have a pair living in the woods behind our house. I get worried when I don't hear them. They're like the neighborhood lucky omens.
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04-23-2010, 11:14 PM
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You are lucky to have such a good guard on duty at your gate. Make sure you dont upset him!!
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04-24-2010, 01:03 AM
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That would totally freak out my uncle's wife. She's Filipino, and believes that when you hear an owl hooting, it's the devil calling, and she gets flat-out terrified. She'd probably have a nervous breakdown if she thought one was roosting anywhere near their house.
Let's hear it for owls!   (And yes, if you didn't catch it, I hate that nosy b###h)
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04-24-2010, 01:34 AM
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04-24-2010, 09:21 AM
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We have the barred owl. The don't make a soft Hoo-Hoo like on TV. The kids have never managed to camp out the whole night in our yard because of those scary owls.
barred owl
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04-24-2010, 11:09 AM
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So cool!
I'd give me left nut to have a morning commute like that.
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04-24-2010, 11:21 AM
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We have a pet talking Cockatoo. The Avery is next to the back gate to the yard. If you come home late & its dark, just as you go to open the gate she says at the top of her voice 'Hello Cocky!!!'. If your not expecting it, you get a great fright ~ pitch black and what sounds like some one saying hello. Gets the blood running!!
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04-24-2010, 11:49 AM
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Very cool. I was surprised when I learned that their digestive tract was not a one way route but a roundabout.
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04-24-2010, 12:05 PM
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EVERY time I'd walk out the road to visit them, the first words out of her mouth would be to ask me when I was going to get married and have kids, with an oblique hint that she had female relatives in the Philippines that would be glad to fill that requirement.  One day a couple years ago, I was sitting on the porch talking with my mother, and I made mention of this in passing to her. Next day my mother caught my uncle's wife out in her front yard and gave her the cussing of a lifetime over it, telling her to keep her bloody nose out of other people's business. Didn't faze her one whit. She'd still ask me when I was going to get married, but then add "don't tell your mother I asked you that".
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04-24-2010, 12:50 PM
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Freaked me out a little lol. Those owls are pretty creepy...beautiful but creepy.
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04-24-2010, 02:51 PM
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We have barred owls here on the farm too. It seems like there's a pair in every creek bottom. They do have a weird call, kind of a hoo-ah, hoo-ah thing.
Actually, around here barred owls are considered invasive. And, I believe that some Native American tribes consider them to be truly bad medicine. Here's a barred owl, close up. Not taken at the farm, but at the Brevard Cty Zoo,
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