Posted on 10/03/2015 3:16:56 AM PDT by eastforker
Garry Olson Jr., the man who recorded the video was fishing at Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas early Saturday morning when the owl swooped down and snatched his lure out of the water, which then caught on to its talon causing it to fall into the water.
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I applaud the owl giving its owl to the effort of getting food.
What is amazing is hoe the owl stayed on the kayak for over an hour waiting for help to arrive
It didn’t even struggle. Just sat there and waited for help. Nice looking bird. Amazing story.
I’m sure the poor bird’s not a hoe. After owl, they mate with the same male all season. Some species even have the same mate for life.
Owls are kinda cool. Mysterious, as you hardly ever see em’. They seem pretty chill.
We found a barred owl sitting on the ground in the woods. One of its eyes was injured. We took it to a professor we knew who specialized in birds/raptors. He said that a raptor who is even slightly injured just shuts down and will not fly. He kept the owl and let it heal and released it.
We have a barred owl that flies through our backyard pretty much every evening at dusk. Sometimes we’re sitting on the deck and I play my phone app for it and it responds. Don’t do this during nesting season but this time of year, “its a hoot.”
I do a pretty good Hoot impression myself, we have plenty of owls in this area and I get them to answer most every time. Mating season hoots is a whole nother matter, they can get quite radical with their sounds.
Love em.I hear them all around me all night.Every now and then when in the tall pines one will spook and fly away.I must wake em from there day time snooze
I had something very similar happen to me while night fishing on a small pond in Massachusetts!
A barred owl grabbed my plug off the surface and got tangled. Luckily the hook popped loose after I lifted him into the boat but I was gearing up for some nasty hand to talon combat before it did. The now-freed owl hopped up unto the gunwale and gave me a dirty look before flying off into the trees.
I didn’t have a camera and there wouldn’t have been enough moonlight for a good video anyway. The only proof I had was a feather I found in the bottom of the boat the next day.
So yeah, I believe this guy’s story. Absolutely!
I too, have found Barred owls to be quite people-friendly. One used to sit in the big tree just above a bird feeder and I explained to him that the kitty was MINE. But he could have all the mice and voles that come for the spilled bird seed.
Must have been agreeable because the kitty sat on the rail and watched but was never harmed.
Also the tiny Saw-whet. They like to some and “talk” to me as I work in the yard and garden in the evening.
Good thing he did get it on tape because with that shirt and hat people would have just slapped another asterisk up next to that story. ;-)
Owl say!
Kinda funny to see a Pats fan in Texas. LOL
As someone mentioned they shut down but the also seem to know who is helping them. I have seen it before. Quite amazing.
My big bird story is not about an owl. Today on my morning run while passing through a sort of lowland meadow filled with golden rod, I heard a loud “Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.” above & a little behind. I looked around and saw a low flying great blue heron changing flight direction. Apparently it had just taken off in my direction from the just out of sight gravel pit along side my running trail and became frightened when it spotted me. It didn’t vocalize, but sometimes they leave out a primitive type of call if they are chased up out of the water.
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