Mocking birds in the Philippines will dive bomb your head during nesting season if you come within 50 yards of their nests. They will scream just as they go over your head, and sometimes hit your head with their feet.
I've heard owls here in the city (Eugene) but have only seen one once. It wasn't interested in my woolen cap.
(Perhaps the Guardian wants to divert our attention from the shenanigans of the Democrats in the governor's house in Salem; the Oregonian has called for Gov. Kitzhaber to resign.)
MDT, it has to have taken a lot to get the Gonian to go after Governor Karamazov. But since the Dems pretty much own the Willamette Valley and can outvote the rest of the state, unless the Feds can tie Cylvia's misdeeds to him. you're likely right.
OH! Spotted owls are polite, and wouldn't steal your hat, but them bad-boy barred owls are takin' over and pushin' them out.
I think the message here is not to put anything on your head that could be mistaken for a rodent. First an ill-considered vaccine comment and now this.
May I point that it is not a matter of hat-stealing owls, but rather owl, one bird with a behavioral tick. Recent research by ornithological behaviorists both here and abroad has shown that birds generally are more intelligent, observant, and aware of humans as individuals than is widely believed.
Some birds, corvids especially, are able to recognize individual human faces, others take in whole visual package. It has been known since at least the 13th century, according to the writings of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, that falconers should dress uniformly lest their varied attire confuse and distract their hawks.
The hat-hating owl may have mistaken all hat-wears for a particular hatted one who did said owl a mischief.
In the early 1990s in Moscow, when banditry was high and everyone wore fur hats, it was rumoured that some people had trained falcons to steal mink hats from people's heads.
Quite the clever owl. Copping hats and selling them to other owls for their nests. Apparently they make excellent superstructures for basic nest design.
"Originally from the east coast and first seen in Oregon, Washington and California in the 1970s, barred owls have been blamed for pushing out the endangered northern spotted owl."
Nice to know, now that the loggers are all out of a job.
Barred Owls can still breed with Spotted Owls because they are cousins separated during the last ice age. Barred Owls will live anywhere, including urban areas. Spotted Owls only like old growth forest. Barred Owls are pretty omnivorous, including eating Spotted Owl eggs. Spotted Owls really love them flying squirrels, being sort of snooty about their food.
No wonder Oregon is going to try to decimate the Barred Owl. [Yes, that's blowing away 10% of the population to see if that can slow the Spotted Owl decline.]
Some of our rural counties cannot even support an adequately-staffed sheriff's patrol because of the destruction of the logging industry in the world's prime habitat for softwood lumber production.
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"Your hat, your hat, sir!"
Did the guy have a big head?
Perhaps the owl could not avoid the giant freak head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EElxuL3AFC4
John Henry
Birds are jerks.
Mocking birds in the Philippines will dive bomb your head during nesting season if you come within 50 yards of their nests. They will scream just as they go over your head, and sometimes hit your head with their feet.
I've heard owls here in the city (Eugene) but have only seen one once. It wasn't interested in my woolen cap.
(Perhaps the Guardian wants to divert our attention from the shenanigans of the Democrats in the governor's house in Salem; the Oregonian has called for Gov. Kitzhaber to resign.)
I saw a barred owl right off my balcony here in Salem a few years back, and we got a (blurry iPhone) snap of it. No sightings since.
ken in tx, not just in the Philippines, but everywhere. Mockingbirds are wonderful, but they're also aggressive as hell. Do not mess about with.
Marc Puckett, I don't think Kitzhaber is in any serious trouble. But then I don't get the Oregonian.
At San Francisco Zoo, the seagulls perch in the snack shack roofs. You can guess the rest.
MDT, it has to have taken a lot to get the Gonian to go after Governor Karamazov. But since the Dems pretty much own the Willamette Valley and can outvote the rest of the state, unless the Feds can tie Cylvia's misdeeds to him. you're likely right.
OH! Spotted owls are polite, and wouldn't steal your hat, but them bad-boy barred owls are takin' over and pushin' them out.
Probably something to do with an attraction with the way the sun reflects off the tin foil.
I think the message here is not to put anything on your head that could be mistaken for a rodent. First an ill-considered vaccine comment and now this.
May I point that it is not a matter of hat-stealing owls, but rather owl, one bird with a behavioral tick. Recent research by ornithological behaviorists both here and abroad has shown that birds generally are more intelligent, observant, and aware of humans as individuals than is widely believed.
Some birds, corvids especially, are able to recognize individual human faces, others take in whole visual package. It has been known since at least the 13th century, according to the writings of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, that falconers should dress uniformly lest their varied attire confuse and distract their hawks.
The hat-hating owl may have mistaken all hat-wears for a particular hatted one who did said owl a mischief.
In the early 1990s in Moscow, when banditry was high and everyone wore fur hats, it was rumoured that some people had trained falcons to steal mink hats from people's heads.
What did Oregon do to piss off the owl people?
Frats. Just more juvenile owl pranks.
They do this during mating season and/or when owlets (?) have just hatched.
Quite the clever owl. Copping hats and selling them to other owls for their nests. Apparently they make excellent superstructures for basic nest design.
#owllivesmatter
As The Onion put it a few years back (wow '97!), "Owls are Assholes." They even made a t-shirt later on.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/owls-are-assholes,9307/
Who?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYDNjGMThbQ
And...eagles are turning people into horses?
http://youtu.be/c1-Oep9uNwM
2) ???
3) Profit!
Just take a 12 gauge with you on your walks. You can get that hat back right quick! Just handload some rock salt shells.
Might have a few extra holes but it will still be yours. And the owl will learn to not touch your hat.
"Originally from the east coast and first seen in Oregon, Washington and California in the 1970s, barred owls have been blamed for pushing out the endangered northern spotted owl."
Nice to know, now that the loggers are all out of a job.
I just listened to a podcast of Criminal where a guy is trying to get off a murder charge by saying the owl did it.
http://thisiscriminal.com/episode-one-animal-instincts-1-31-2014-2/
It could be worse. It could have been purses.
"It was kind of amazing how it just swooped down and grabbed my hat like that... It just pulled it right off my head like it was nothing!”.
At last, some wise owls have figured out the woolly hats are perfect prefab nests, and will spare them the hard labor of building a new one.
Barred Owls can still breed with Spotted Owls because they are cousins separated during the last ice age. Barred Owls will live anywhere, including urban areas. Spotted Owls only like old growth forest. Barred Owls are pretty omnivorous, including eating Spotted Owl eggs. Spotted Owls really love them flying squirrels, being sort of snooty about their food.
No wonder Oregon is going to try to decimate the Barred Owl. [Yes, that's blowing away 10% of the population to see if that can slow the Spotted Owl decline.]
Some of our rural counties cannot even support an adequately-staffed sheriff's patrol because of the destruction of the logging industry in the world's prime habitat for softwood lumber production.
Oregon owls have a very keen sense of fashion.
My understanding, Milwaukie, is that they may prefer old growth, but don't require it.
You're right. It's just a locavore thing [sp?].
Bartholemew Cubbins, beware!
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