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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:28 PM
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:29 PM
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1. Ooo Nice hooters!
Edited on Thu Mar-23-06 05:31 PM by OhioBlues
:bounce: :thumbsup:


edited for a better word!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:37 PM
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3. Check this one out...
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:31 PM
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2. Nice Hooters
:bounce::bounce:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 06:01 PM
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14. The Owl and the Pussycat...
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:38 PM
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4. They're called 'Uhu' here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4919336
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:44 PM
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6. Mr GoG's great-grandfather came here from Switzerland...
I wish I'd been able to meet him, as he was a mountaineer, and most likely would have known about all sorts of things like owls and chamois, and so forth...

Love the bubo-bubo! :D
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:49 PM
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9. It's quite an impressive bird.
Unfortunately, in the old days, these birds were not much liked since everybody thought they bring death into the house if you spot them.

I'm sure your husband's great-grandfather had seen them.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:50 PM
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11. How can anyone dislike a species that keeps rodents under control?
I'll never understand it...
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:56 PM
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12. I don't understand it either.
I think here it had to do a lot with the fact that the owl is a night creature, and their call might have been a bit freaky if you're alone in the woods and hear it. Funny enough, where we live, there are still some legends vividly alive. Like the ones that snakes like to drink milk and are therefore attracted to babies. And so on.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 06:05 PM
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15. Some folks still freak about cats, too...
:(
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 06:13 PM
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17. Black cats! Yikes!
;) I know. I was once a little bit freaked out when I had my last cigarette at night in summer, wandering off into the street (I had on bermuda shorts), haring some 'tap tap tap' and looking up. There was a quite big badger just heading my way ...
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 06:17 PM
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18. That would be pretty scary, I'll bet!
A couple of summers ago, a couple of friends and I were walking in the evening, and saw what appeared to be a cat, feasting on the food that had been left out for him. When we got a little closer, one of my friends suggested that we might want to choose another route, however. It seems the "cat" was actually a skunk...
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 06:25 PM
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19. Well,
you always can burn your clothing and spend a few hours under the shower after a skunk sprayed you, but a full grown badger has quite some nice teeth. This one obviously had never seen a human before, so her/him was quite interested in me. Only after my pretty loud "You go your way, I go my way" he turned back with something that sounded like a deep hiss and took the short way through our hedge.

Other encounters of mine: snakes, foxes, deers, etc.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 06:41 PM
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20. I don't think I'd want to run into a scared badger, that's for certain.
We have little grey foxes around here; but there's been a lot of recent development, and I'm not seeing as many as I used to. :(

I'm hoping they've just found better hiding places.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:41 PM
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5. we have barred owls here.
they are very cool, friendly, make all sorts of weird noises as well as hoo hoo ho-hoooooo. Hissing, snarling, and very friendly.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:49 PM
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10. I've heard an owl in our backyard on occasion
but I've never gotten a look at him.
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:48 PM
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7. Love owls
I've got a couple residing in the forest behind our house. Hear them all the time around sunset, but all I've seen is a flash of body and wings as they fly back further into the forest. Look to be fairly big birds though. I'm keeping a better eye out these days so that I can ID what particular type of owl they are.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:57 PM
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13. Let us know when you find out!
:)
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:49 PM
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8. That 5th owl is one weird looking bird.
;-)
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 06:08 PM
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16. Anteating owls are a rarity
:silly:
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 06:42 PM
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21. What?
:D
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 07:10 PM
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22. How

now brown cow?
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 07:57 PM
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23. Whooooo are you? Who, who, who who?
I really wanna know.
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