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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by FuglyDuck to c/superbowl
 

I’ve been getting trolled most the year by a GHO- they’d set up above my window and hoot until I went outside to try and get a picture.

Eventually set up a webcam… jerk used it for a perch (and flew in and off from behind… all it saw were its talons…)

Whelp. It’s grainy. But I finally got ‘em.

(Very) Early Christmas Day. There was at least four others calling out, maybe 5-6, some were distant, so they were too bothered to hide from me.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There was at least four others calling out, maybe 5-6

I have it on good authority that there were only four calling birds.

[–] jqubed 4 points 5 days ago

Three French hens? Two turtle doves? A partridge in a pear tree?

[–] FuglyDuck 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

There were at least 4, from separate directions. A few calls were far enough away that I think there were more (were next to a very large park, that runs half the county.)

It felt more like call-and response with an owl further out.

[–] aviationeast 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Say it there are five birds picard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

THERE

AAH

FOUR

BIIIHDS

[–] anon6789 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Congrats on finally getting it on camera!

Is that a second owl in the tree or something else?

That's funny it mocked your camera before! 😆

[–] FuglyDuck 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] anon6789 3 points 5 days ago

Nice! It looked like it was horned as well.

I spotted my pals Annabelle and Otis today and wished them a happy holidays.

They also had a new Red Tailed Hawk, and the porcupine was out and about and I got some pics of that too.

I hope you get some more photos of your resident owls in the future!