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Author Topic: Just a little guy Clank Knows what it's all about Member # 3687 posted December 08, 2010 04:58 PM                   Stopped by my parents the other night after work and this little guy flew up in the tree .Grabbed moms camera snapped afew pics. I am not up on knowing the names of owls but a little look on the net and only found it to look like an eastern screech owl.It only stood about 7 inches tall if that. Posts: 45 | From: IL | Registered: Oct 2010  |  IP: Logged the bearhunter HM PROSTAFF & MIDWEST REGIONAL GURU VOTED MOST HANDSOME MINNESOTAN Member # 3552 posted December 08, 2010 06:16 PM                   i think it might be a saw-whet owl Posts: 1049 | From: minnifornia | Registered: Jan 2010  |  IP: Logged GC Knows what it's all about Member # 3718 posted December 08, 2010 07:13 PM                    Looks like a red phase screech owl to me. There is also a gray phase that many people mistake as a baby great horned owl. Make a sound like a horse whinny. Posts: 45 | From: US | Registered: Nov 2010  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted December 08, 2010 08:21 PM                       Yeah, that's what it is. Otus asio, the red phase of the eastern Screech-Owl. Note pale bill. Good hunting. El Bee -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 32361 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged the bearhunter HM PROSTAFF & MIDWEST REGIONAL GURU VOTED MOST HANDSOME MINNESOTAN Member # 3552 posted December 09, 2010 03:45 AM                   i stand corrected i don't think the saw-whet have ear tuff's Posts: 1049 | From: minnifornia | Registered: Jan 2010  |  IP: Logged Clank Knows what it's all about Member # 3687 posted December 09, 2010 04:29 AM                   This is the first time i have ever seen an owl like this in our area of that color. Somewhere i have a pic of a great horn owl that my brother hit with his pickup when he was in highschool. And by the way this ones camo doesnt blend in with the tree to well . Posts: 45 | From: IL | Registered: Oct 2010  |  IP: Logged Patterson 19.6 miles down the Yellow Brick Road from THE EMERALD CITY Member # 3304 posted December 09, 2010 05:18 AM                    How did it taste? Posts: 236 | From: Kansas | Registered: Nov 2008  |  IP: Logged knockemdown Our staff photo editing Guru, par excellence Member # 3588 posted December 09, 2010 05:30 AM                      Those little Screech owls are cool! Never seen that red variant before though... We have one that lives in/around an old broken down syrup cabin back in the woods on my buddy's farm. Every now & then, that owl will be perched up out on a rafter where we can catch a glimpse of him... Great photo! [ December 09, 2010, 05:30 AM: Message edited by: knockemdown ] Posts: 2202 | From: behind fascist lines | Registered: Mar 2010  |  IP: Logged RagnCajn ADDS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING Member # 879 posted December 09, 2010 10:41 AM                    Screech owls make pretty good pets. When I was a kid, Dad came home with one. The antennae of his truck had broke its wing. Built a wire stand up cage and put it in the back room. We would feed it scraps of meat. Was bout like a parakeet within a couple weeks. Kept that thing for several years. It would ride on our hand as we walked around the house. His last breath actually saved my Mom's life. Teflon pans were the rage. Mom had left the fire burning under a teflon pan. The burning teflon put off a poisonous non odorous gas. She heard the owl begin to raise a ruckus. Went to check on him and he fell off the perch. Dead. She turned to check out the parakeets across the room. They were allready dead. She went to her knees, and crawled to the door. Got it open and went around to the outside and opened the front door. Still not knowing what had killed them, but knew it was something in the house. She ventured back in the house and found the pan with all the coating burned off. They currently have a flying squirrel in the den. I can remember Deer, Bobcat, coon, squirrels Possum, Owl, and several other critters that have been nursed back to health in our house over my growing up years. Here is a picture, circa late 70's from the den. I have been asking her for the last few years to find the pictures of the bobcat. [ December 09, 2010, 10:48 AM: Message edited by: RagnCajn ] Posts: 362 | From: Shreveport LA | Registered: Jul 2006  |  IP: Logged Patterson 19.6 miles down the Yellow Brick Road from THE EMERALD CITY Member # 3304 posted December 09, 2010 11:27 AM                    Crazy story about the teflon pan! Now you made me feel bad for asking what they taste like... Posts: 236 | From: Kansas | Registered: Nov 2008  |  IP: Logged RagnCajn ADDS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING Member # 879 posted December 09, 2010 12:28 PM                    No problem. Actually, we didn't eat that one. Built a small wooden box and buried it in the back yard with full honors. Posts: 362 | From: Shreveport LA | Registered: Jul 2006  |  IP: Logged Clank Knows what it's all about Member # 3687 posted December 09, 2010 04:46 PM                   Ragncajn you did have an interesting childhood. When we was kids all we had were dogs, coons, rabbits, ducks and a pig for pets. I think i have seen that pick before of the deer in the den. Patterson i hear they taste like chicken let me know when you try one. Posts: 45 | From: IL | Registered: Oct 2010  |  IP: Logged TOM64 Knows what it's all about Member # 561 posted December 09, 2010 05:39 PM                   They taste a bit more like bald eagle... Posts: 2283 | From: okieland | Registered: Feb 2005  |  IP: Logged RagnCajn ADDS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING Member # 879 posted December 09, 2010 05:58 PM                    Clank, you have no idea. I don't know about interesting, but it was different from most. Grew up in the house my Dad was born in and still lives in. By the time I was about 8-10, My older brother and I both had our own 22's. When we went out the door in the mornings, I would hear the lock latch behind us. Some days, it was catch and saddle a horse. Ride till dark. Rural country and everyone knew us. Where eer we ended up at lunch, they would feed us and we would go back to riding. Other days we may take our fishing gear and walk from farm pond to farm pond. Dad Built a long cage. had 10 or so dividers in it. Up on stilts. Wire bottom. Told us if you catch it, you can keep it. Did you know a possum can whip a coon if you throw both of them in a 55 gallon drum. The only thing he ever made us take out and kill was a water moccassin. We had brought it home and put it in the cage after trying to milk the venom out of it like we had seen on National Geographic Channel at my Grandma's home in the city. 19 miles away, Population 2500. Posts: 362 | From: Shreveport LA | Registered: Jul 2006  |  IP: Logged Krustyklimber prefers the bunny hugger pronunciation: ky o tee Member # 72 posted December 09, 2010 11:06 PM                    "Bald eagles... they taste like chicken and fish! I got myself banned from a local forum, for that line. Krusty -------------------- Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that! Posts: 1912 | From: Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Clank Knows what it's all about Member # 3687 posted December 10, 2010 04:32 AM                   RagnCajn Did you know a possum can whip a coon if you throw both of them in a 55 gallon drum. If i would have read that a few years ago i would have ran out the door with a few live traps just to see the fight of who won. I knew possums could be mean but to whip a coon thats tuff. I had coons beat the crap out of my coon hounds but i never let them fight a possum. Posts: 45 | From: IL | Registered: Oct 2010  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted December 10, 2010 11:47 AM                       That wouldn't be much of a fight, for a medium size dog. They can kill a opossum easily. Whatever is going on wit h coons, I don't know, but a opossum is solid and has 50 teeth, confine the combatants to a 55 gallon drum and I don't think a coon has much room to maneuver? Still, what Randy says about it is surprising, to me? The coon seems more fragile yet wins a fight with a hound, in water. Good hunting. LB -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 32361 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged

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