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Posted: Feb/09/2009 6:24 AM PST
I found this Great Horned Owl In my pasture. She had a very badly broken wing and was starving. Her mate was still hanging around. Owl rescue came for her and after being checked by a vet she was PTS. 
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Posted: Feb/09/2009 6:38 AM PST
poor owl.. wow is it ever beautiful. Do you know or anyone know how to attract owls, if you can? I have only seen one in my lifetime.
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Posted: Feb/09/2009 8:24 AM PST
I know you can attract the small owls with nesting boxes . I have one set up for a a Sawhet. As far as the big ones I don't know. They just happen to live around here. I live in the country with a creek below the house and lots of spruce. They will be nesting now. See them at dusk quite often. Love to listen to them HOOT.I think they come out at nite to eat the mice around the chicken house and the bird feeders. |
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Posted: Feb/09/2009 6:16 PM PST
How beautiful! I hope they can save it. We have lots of owls around here-don't see them much during the day-and they Swoop quickly in the late evenings. |
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Posted: Feb/10/2009 4:29 AM PST
Aren't they glorious birds? It's a shame that people do get to see them very often. A few years ago, a biology teacher at my school found a dead one in the road. He wanted to take is to a taxidermist and get it stuffed and mounted. He had to jump through all kinds of legal hoops to get it done. After all that expense and trouble, he had to display it in a glass case at our school. He didn't even get to keep it. Owls are under all kinds of federal regulations and restrictions. |
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Posted: Feb/10/2009 6:34 AM PST
Do Red Tail Hawks or any other type of Hawks get along with Owls? We got plenty of Hawks. |
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Posted: Feb/10/2009 6:42 AM PST
I think Hawks are primarily day hunters, and owls are night hunters-however-I have seen both active at dusk. |
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Posted: Feb/10/2009 7:40 AM PST
There IS one owl that will hunt in daytime. That's the Hawk Owl. Came across one eating a pheasant down from the house.I really don`t think they really pay any attention to each other. |
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Posted: Feb/10/2009 9:02 PM PST
Thank You! God, I love this place, you fellow gardeners are so darn knowledgeable. 
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Posted: Feb/14/2009 3:21 PM PST
What a beauty! An owl attacked one of our dogs years ago. hubby got it off the dog and put it in a cage. The person who came to pick it up took the owl in our cage (but returned it later) 'cause he was scared of the owl. It was a big bird, a beauty too! Haven't seen one since. PS. PTS? 
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