Posted on 11/15/2019 12:42:20 PM PST by C19fan
You’ve probably seen this viral video circulating on Twitter. The camera pans up through a hole in the ceiling to reveal ... creatures of some kind. Are they aliens? Ghosts?
No. They're owls. Really, really creepy owls.
If you’re not entirely convinced that the hissing trio are indeed birds, you’re not alone. (I showed the video to one friend, who replied: “That cannot possibly be real.” Others have displayed similar skepticism online.)
When the video first hit the internet in 2017, multiple sources reported that construction workers stumbled across the scraggly birds, known as eastern barn owls, at a site in Visakhapatnam, capital of the south-eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With renewed interest in the monster birds, Popular Mechanics reached out to ornithologist Kevin McGowan of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to find out what makes them look so sinister.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
A barn owl might nab a kitten or a teacup poodle, but I don’t think it could get off of the ground with a full-sized cat.
Owl’s love kittens and puppies all fattened up.
Looks like my sister in-law, but easier on the eyes.
There are a few animals on Earth that definitely look ‘alien’ - and barn owls are one of them.
Owl are bad omens. I saw an outline of an owl on one of the windows of my house where he had flew into it by accident. My pet dog died a week of so later.
Around here they kill & eat the cats on the spot.
They use their beak to clip off the paws and head, the open the rib cage to eat the entrails.
You know your animals much better than most!
> Damn fine cherry pie!
At the place where pies go to die !
Cats just think they own the night.
I was wrapped up in a sleeping bag with only my head exposed, watching the night sky for the meteor shower and had that big owl circle overhead. That owl is no small critter. And I was alarmed enough to get more of me out of the bag so the critter could see I was too big for it to carry. I estimate the wingspan of that Owl was at least six feet.
We have the large size too. I won’t have them around, they get used for target practice here. I want and need my barn cats and owls will wipe them out. Nope, not an owl fan and I don’t buy any of the clothes or decor with them on it either.
I leave them alone if they stay away from me but they better not move in here.
Owls are almost completely silent - prey never hear them coming. Interesting article on the wing/feather features that make them so:
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-silent-flight-owls-explained
Yes and they can carry smaller adult cats. I have seen them do it. My barn cats are not the fat couch potato cats most people have, they are in great shape but not fat so owls could pack them off if they wanted to. Or eat them on the spot as you said.
I know owls eat rodents but when they get used to eating cats I think they prefer them because the owls and coyotes cleaned me out of cats several years ago, then I had rodents and the owls left.
Tony Rodrigues ~ A Survivor of Child-trafficking, Sexual Slavery & Secret Space Program
Great Horned owls might get that big, maybe barred owls, but barn owls are more crow sized except stockier. They have a white face, and a fawn colored body—really good looking.
Barred owls are grey black. Their call sounds a bit like “who cooks for you, who cooks for you all”. I don’t know if barn owls hoot at all. Great horned owls make loud calls: Who-whoo-whoo-whoooo
They do, and they're very loud.
Good for you. Ive lost cats to birds and probably coyotes.
Protecting people and dpmestic animals is why the old-timers destroyed predators.
“Owl are bad omens.”
Isn’t that a common feeling among Indians? A warning of impending death?
Thanx for the info! It maybe I have miss named the bugger. He/she is greyish and does not have a white face. It lives in the Big red barn across the road, however.
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