Make sure to shoo that bugger away and prevent it from nesting there; otherwise, it'll drive you insane with its relentless hissing at night to drive potential predators away.
All you need now is this:
:mrgreen:
OK, its my neighbor's yard, high up in a pine tree. It is a large Horned Owl that has recently moved in. Now, my neighborhood was built in 1957, and I've lived there most of my life. An owl sighting used to be pretty rare. In the last few years we have had coyotes in the area and we had a family of javelinas that got onto the football field of the grade school behind my house. Also had a Cooper's hawk fly into my front window (with a pigeon in its claws). In the last few years we have had an invasion of peach faced lovebirds establish here as well. I am always amazed to find wild life in my central Phoenix neiborhood.
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They eat skunks. I would suggest leaving them be so they continue to eat the skunks. Skunks like to spray ****. The long standing truce I had with my skunk has been broken. I wish the owl would move to my neighborhood and assassinate the skunk. Soon. I pay well and there are lots of cats to eat.
OK, its my neighbor's yard, high up in a pine tree. It is a large Horned Owl that has recently moved in. Now, my neighborhood was built in 1957, and I've lived there most of my life. An owl sighting used to be pretty rare. In the last few years we have had coyotes in the area and we had a family of javelinas that got onto the football field of the grade school behind my house. Also had a Cooper's hawk fly into my front window (with a pigeon in its claws). In the last few years we have had an invasion of peach faced lovebirds establish here as well. I am always amazed to find wild life in my central Phoenix neiborhood.
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Does he hoot at night. We had one that loved to be very loud into the wee hours, when I was a kid.eace
Yes, but he is all over the hood at night, so I don't always hear it. I heard him yesterday morning when the sun was up. All day long yesterday, there were mockingbirds swooping and diving and making all kinds of clatter at him. They must have a nest in the tree. That was loud and annoying.
Mockingbirds hate owls. That is what they were telling you.
Owls like to eat mockingbird chicks.....that will be the end result.
I've always found that mockingbird chicks are too small to be worth the effort, myself.
Fine by me, if he leaves my cat alone.
A coyote got a cat near my house a few weeks ago.
The area around Phoenix is pretty wild, actually.
Yeah, I live about a mile from Papago Park, which is enormous, and it even has the AZ National Guard there. There are peregrine falcons in the buttes around there, and even in the skyscrapers in downtown PHX.
I worked in a tower off central and they had a hawk up on the roof to control the pigeon population. I'd be sitting at my desk and I'd see this object just fall past my window and it would be him all closed up nose-diving down. I kept binoculars in my desk to spot fires all around the city or to spot the hawk some times. Sometimes he'd pearch on the building across the yard from us.
OK, its my neighbor's yard, high up in a pine tree. It is a large Horned Owl that has recently moved in. Now, my neighborhood was built in 1957, and I've lived there most of my life. An owl sighting used to be pretty rare. In the last few years we have had coyotes in the area and we had a family of javelinas that got onto the football field of the grade school behind my house. Also had a Cooper's hawk fly into my front window (with a pigeon in its claws). In the last few years we have had an invasion of peach faced lovebirds establish here as well. I am always amazed to find wild life in my central Phoenix neiborhood.
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I'd never hurt it. Its a raptor, its protected.
Now....javelinas....well, if you shoot them, you just make them mad.
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