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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #30 on: January 14, 2011, 01:06:20 PM »
Boreal was what I was thinking...NOT Burrowing.   Which is the Saw Whet......(now that you are totally confused.)

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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #31 on: January 14, 2011, 01:54:19 PM »
The kind that will make toilet paper obsolete!! :chuckle:

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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #32 on: January 14, 2011, 03:26:37 PM »
Boreal was what I was thinking...NOT Burrowing.   Which is the Saw Whet......(now that you are totally confused.)

OK cool thanks.  For all intents and purposes this one I'm referring to looks like just miniature of what we used to refer to as a "barn owl" back home.  Just mini sized.  Oh yeah, he's also vocal as hell at times.
« Last Edit: January 14, 2011, 03:34:43 PM by GoldTip »
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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #33 on: January 14, 2011, 03:46:40 PM »
That would be the Borreal.  They have the "barn" owl face compared to the screech.

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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #34 on: January 14, 2011, 04:56:52 PM »
Boreal was what I was thinking...NOT Burrowing.   Which is the Saw Whet......(now that you are totally confused.)
Saw whet is just barely larger than the pygmy.  Has dark eyes instead of yellow, little white streaks on brown on top of its head, brown instead of gray.  likes open conifers and mixed forests, heavier canopy than where I usually see the pygmy.  Name comes from it's call, which reminded people of the sound of sharpening a crosscut saw with a whetstone.
As long as we have the habitat, we can argue forever about who gets to kill what and when.  No habitat = no game.

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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #35 on: January 14, 2011, 05:14:49 PM »
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which reminded people of the sound of sharpening a crosscut saw with a whetstone.
Thats cool.   I always wondered what the heck that meant.

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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #36 on: January 15, 2011, 12:29:24 PM »
BARRED OWL.  

+1. More white on the breast = Barred.
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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #37 on: January 15, 2011, 12:46:04 PM »
pic of a saw whet we rescued during elk season, found it in the middle of the road we think it was hit by a vehicle, it was not able to open one eye. We contacted WDFW who got us in contact with a lady in Kennewick who in turn took it to Pendlton, they rehabilitated the owl and released it where we found it.
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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #38 on: January 15, 2011, 12:48:41 PM »
VERY cool! :)
I am not opposed to golf, for I suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering deer.

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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #39 on: January 15, 2011, 05:05:31 PM »
just cant tell form the picture

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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #40 on: January 15, 2011, 11:03:08 PM »
pic of a saw whet we rescued during elk season, found it in the middle of the road we think it was hit by a vehicle, it was not able to open one eye. We contacted WDFW who got us in contact with a lady in Kennewick who in turn took it to Pendlton, they rehabilitated the owl and released it where we found it.
Great job!  However, that is a really nice gray phase screech owl.  No ear tufts on the saw whet!
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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #41 on: January 15, 2011, 11:15:02 PM »
Thanks doublelung, we did not know what it was and took the woman's word for it.

another pic.

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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #42 on: January 15, 2011, 11:50:10 PM »
Cute little screecher!  Hopefully his eye recovers.

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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #43 on: January 20, 2011, 09:17:48 PM »
Sitting out on my front porch right now and there is a screech owl out here working.   Noisey little buggers

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Re: Anyone know this species of owl?
« Reply #44 on: January 20, 2011, 09:53:32 PM »
That's funny, I was just down at the barn feeding the cows while listening to 2 hooty owls about 200 yards apart.

 


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