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wornoutboots
11-03-2011, 20:17
I don't know what it is but owls are the coolest!! Recently at Curley Maple Gap Shelter I heard the most incredible owls!! Some of their calls can get very intense & very interesting! The same thing one night at Sassafras Gap Shelter, it sounded like 2 were fighting that night, really crazy!! They don't just woo ya know :)

hikerboy57
11-03-2011, 20:21
Im not sure this will paste correctly, but you have to check out this link, its an owl flying towrd the camera in super slo mo:http://www.dogwork.com/owfo8

johnnybgood
11-03-2011, 20:22
Wise Old Owl should respond to this ANY MINUTE.......

rustmd
11-03-2011, 20:23
couple of years ago at bly gap, i heard owls who-whooing from a distance. then the owls were screaming at each other, screaming their whooooos. another hiker said the owls were mating, normally owls guard their territories and are more solitary. not that night.

4shot
11-03-2011, 20:28
I don't remember which shelter but it was early in the hike...still in Ga. Three hoot owls started talking back and forth not much before dawn. There were two young men from the Philly area camping with us. When they got up I asked them if they heard the owls...they replied "Owls, we thought they were monkeys?!!!" Of course, everyone lol'd. One of them made it all the way. Sixtoes...are you reading WB these days? I absolutely love to hear the owls..and the coyotes. I only hate the sound of mice. :(

10-K
11-03-2011, 20:29
Not too long ago I spent the night just up the hill from Curley Map Gap shelter ( don't know if you remember that old rock foundation about 100 yards before the shelter) and listened to the same owls.

I can get off the AT right there instead of hiking all the way to the Nolichucky and walk down the mountain and be sitting in my living room in an hour. :)

Those owls really crank it out.

4eyedbuzzard
11-03-2011, 20:42
I remember a few years ago at 4am, pitch black out, and a screech owl let loose about 20 feet from me. I about soiled myself. Amazing birds.

stars in her eyes
11-03-2011, 20:46
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My sister and I spotted this Barred Owl on a recent hike. It was not at all shy; it merely peered down at us, quietly, as we oohed and ahhed at it. They really do have something special about them.

Perennial
11-03-2011, 20:58
Hikerboy, that video is awesome! :eek: We have several whooing in the woods behind our house every night. Love them.

Wise Old Owl
11-03-2011, 21:31
Im not sure this will paste correctly, but you have to check out this link, its an owl flying towrd the camera in super slo mo:http://www.dogwork.com/owfo8

Incredible - better than my home security cam video of the hawk! OWWWWWW!

orions_knight
11-03-2011, 21:34
video was insane. just imagine that mother mistaking your daniel boone hat for a meal. haha

Wise Old Owl
11-03-2011, 21:37
Wise Old Owl should respond to this ANY MINUTE.......In 3 .....2.....1.... WOO MG!

Too Funny http://www.owlpages.com/sounds.php

burger
11-03-2011, 21:41
Some AT hikers complain when the barred owls start hooting it up at 3 am, but I'm always happy to hear them. An abundance of predators is a sign of a healthy ecosystem.

orions_knight
11-03-2011, 21:42
Some AT hikers complain when the barred owls start hooting it up at 3 am, but I'm always happy to hear them. An abundance of predators is a sign of a healthy ecosystem.

......and less mice, right?

Papa D
11-03-2011, 21:50
Pretty cool - always love an owl - I was camping a few weeks ago and heard a virtual chorus of Whippoorwills (place called Big Green Mtn. in Panthertown Valley near Cashiers, NC) - that was pretty crazy.

WingedMonkey
11-03-2011, 22:26
Early Florida settlers believed that our Burrowing Owl shared their underground tunnels with rattlesnakes without being eaten. They do not, the fledgling owls in the nest mimic the sounds of a rattlesnake when the burrow is approached.

http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/wss&CISOPTR=144&CISOBOX=1&REC=12

Sarcasm the elf
11-04-2011, 00:00
Owls are awesome. First time I ever heard a barred owl was at Wiley Shelter (NY) a couple of years ago in December during a snow storm.

Who cooks for you?

rocketsocks
11-04-2011, 00:14
Wise Old Owl great site(book mark)Hiker 57 that was one of the neatest things I have seen since I bought a computer and got on the WWW.

Feral Bill
11-04-2011, 01:19
Pity that the're a harbinger of death.

SoFlo
11-04-2011, 06:47
I always love hearing the owls at night. Love seeing them too!. This one was seen during last years section trip on the Florida Trail near Three Lakes WMA. Great Eagle viewing spot too. http://www.myfloridahikes.com/profiles/blogs/three-lakes-wma

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hikerboy57
11-04-2011, 07:16
Some AT hikers complain when the barred owls start hooting it up at 3 am, but I'm always happy to hear them. An abundance of predators is a sign of a healthy ecosystem."D*** that natural wilderness stuff interfering with my natural wilderness experience!!"

10-K
11-04-2011, 07:18
Early Florida settlers believed that our Burrowing Owl shared their underground tunnels with rattlesnakes without being eaten. They do not, the fledgling owls in the nest mimic the sounds of a rattlesnake when the burrow is approached.

http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/wss&CISOPTR=144&CISOBOX=1&REC=12

So what are you saying? That you're more likely to get eaten by an owl than get bit by a snake?

Old Hiker
11-04-2011, 08:14
I learned I cold levitate off the ground at Providence Canyon State Park in Ga years ago. An owl landed in the tree above me and started to hoot! It was about 6 feet over my tent and lasted for at least 10 minutes! After the first couple of hoots, I thought it was great!

garlic08
11-04-2011, 08:58
Here's an excerpt from my AT journal after camping at Abingdon Gap: "The highlight of the day came very early, pre-dawn, when (it sounded like) three owls engaged in either mating or a territorial dispute (maybe both) right above our campsite. They were making sounds up there I've never heard in nature before." They sounded like coyotes in trees.

rocketsocks
11-04-2011, 19:27
To this day I have no idea what it was I heard in 1985,have'nt heard it since and honestly don't want to.freaky man!!!

WingedMonkey
11-04-2011, 22:35
So what are you saying? That you're more likely to get eaten by an owl than get bit by a snake?

Are you sure that was a snake you heard?

:p

tiptoe
11-05-2011, 13:01
For more North American bird calls, including owls, try http://www.enature.com/birding/audio.asp.

wornoutboots
11-05-2011, 13:29
For more North American bird calls, including owls, try http://www.enature.com/birding/audio.asp.

Thanks I'm almost positive what I heard were Barred Owls & they were definately doing additional crazy calls that night.