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Escaped Central Park owl hunting for his own food
UPI ^ | FEB. 14, 2023 / 3:32 PM | By Ben Hooper

Posted on 02/15/2023 12:27:56 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: gundog
One of my favorite videos, there's several of this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-V9sIPDnBc

41 posted on 02/15/2023 1:19:19 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: dfwgator

“Shattered! What’s that?”


42 posted on 02/15/2023 1:23:21 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

That would be a sea gull


43 posted on 02/15/2023 1:23:25 PM PST by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: Red Badger

Central Park also has a lot of squirrels.


44 posted on 02/15/2023 1:25:54 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN
That’s one big ass owl!!

We have two Great Horned Owls around us. They perch in our trees most days. I go out with my dog. She's a snack for them. They are just a bit smaller than that. Up to 25" long and a 3'-5' wingspan. Pretty sure the two around us are on the larger end of that scale. Their wings are huge.

45 posted on 02/15/2023 1:39:46 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: lump in the melting pot
No shortage of fat juicy rats in the Big Apple

If he runs out it's a short flight down here to DC

46 posted on 02/15/2023 1:51:40 PM PST by AndyJackson (.)
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To: Fai Mao

Yes, they had better!
I lost a petite beautiful bob-tailed kitty.
She escaped out the door, and I never saw her again.

Either she became REALLY feral, or a fox, coyote or an owl got her.

We live in the sticks in Maine, so it’s very probable.
I looked for her for a long time...finally gave up!


47 posted on 02/15/2023 1:57:23 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

I meant to ping you to my post 47!


48 posted on 02/15/2023 1:59:28 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history.)
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To: Red Badger

who?...


49 posted on 02/15/2023 2:03:04 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Red Badger

Me 3!!! Let him live free!


50 posted on 02/15/2023 2:06:18 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: IYAS9YAS; luvie

Back when I was smoking, I stepped out for a smoke late one night.

I heard a flutter of wings, and a HUGE white owl landed on
the telephone wire attached to my house.
The wire was about 10 feet away, beyond where I was standing, so that the owl had to look back at me over it’s shoulder.

I cannot tell you if it was a horned owl, but I do not remember seeing any.
I’m pretty sure is was round headed.
I was so mesmerized by it eyes.
In the yard light they looked the color of a new penny.

A fissure of fear ran straight up my spine, not of the bird,
but of the omens attached to it.
I turned tail and ran back in the house like the coward that I am!
P.S. It was HUGE, that, I remember-probably a female, as they are bigger than males.


51 posted on 02/15/2023 2:12:42 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history.)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN
A fissure of fear ran straight up my spine, not of the bird, but of the omens attached to it.

Only if it calls your name. That is true both in Athabascan and Czech folklore.

52 posted on 02/15/2023 2:15:39 PM PST by Publius
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To: Fai Mao; Red Badger

Ping to post 51!


53 posted on 02/15/2023 2:16:11 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history.)
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To: anyone
Squirrels, rats and mice keeping an eye
on the sky now.
54 posted on 02/15/2023 2:56:07 PM PST by StormEye
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To: Red Badger

At least there is one thing worth looking at in in NYC. Handsome!


55 posted on 02/15/2023 3:07:57 PM PST by Ford4000
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To: MS.BEHAVIN
I hear owls outside most every night of the year.

The barred owl is easy to identify by its call: who cooks who cooks for you all.

And the screech owl is easy to identify by its call.

56 posted on 02/15/2023 3:10:02 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Red Badger

Well, it worked great with owls (i.e., finding their own way after getting off the dole), now let’s try it with humans.


57 posted on 02/15/2023 3:13:25 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: seowulf

and this proves they should all be able to feed themselves..

if they so desire.


58 posted on 02/15/2023 3:46:45 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: Hot Tabasco

59 posted on 02/15/2023 4:03:04 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Red Badger

rats and pigeons galore. He’s going to live high on the hog.


60 posted on 02/15/2023 4:05:52 PM PST by DouglasKC
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