[NFHale]

Owls are neat critters. Good hunters.

[Red Badger]

This one must be exceptional.....................

[gundog]

I went out to the truck for something, the other night. Saw a silhouette in the cherry tree about 10 feet away that had to be an owl. Snapped a bad photo, and IDed it as a Barred Owl. They’ve moved into all of Oregon, evidently. Love the silent flight, even when panicked by the flash.

[crz]

They are increasingly using them in orchards. A flight of Owls will keep a huge area clean of rodents.

All they need is a roosting boxes and they will patrol the whole place.

[Joe 6-pack]

Probably about 15 years ago I had gone into my office in Louisiana on a Saturday to catch up on some work. Our office at the time was on the edge of town. Behind the building was a stand of woods. To the side of the parking lot was a field that had once been used for sugarcane, had fallen into disuse and become overgrown, and had recently been cleared with a bush hog.

After a couple hours in my office, I stepped outside for a smoke and was leaning against the outside staircase at the front of the building. To my upper right my eye caught a sudden quick motion and I followed it as a great horned owl swooped down from the woodline behind the building, snatched a 2-3' long snake out of the field, flapped its wings a few times as it circled and climbed back into the woods.

The whole episode took no more than 10 seconds, and the overwhelming impression I was left with was how quick, surgical, and above all, how silent the entire event had been.

[Hot Tabasco]

There’s a guy on Youtube who put up a couple of videos of his owl and cat playing.......Really cool