I love owls!

A pair of Great Horned Owls has a nest in a park near me. It is fun to watch the young grow from balls of fluff to flying predators.

Owls are very important to the environment, keep in mind they are considered raptors. Great Horned Owls are apex predators, wherever they nest, don't let your cats out. They have a better chance of surviving against coyotes than GH Owls.
 
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Here is a video of the owls in a park near me, mother and baby from 2015. Their nest is in a large steel washtub. A naturalist cut some drainage holes in the bottom, climbed a tall tree and wedged it in the crotch of the tree. The owls have been building nests in it ever since.

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So?

Owls are very important to the environment, keep in mind they are considered raptors. Great Horned Owls are apex predators, wherever they nest, don't let your cats out. They have a better chance of surviving against coyotes than GH Owls.

Cats are songbird predators. There are more and more cats and less and less birds all the time, so don't begrudge the GHOs an occasional meal. If you love the pussy's that much, keep them indoors...
 
The stealth fighters of the bird world.
Can see in the dark and fly silently.
 
owls are cool I saw a tattoo lady last week who had many owl tattoo her name is Janeway I found her on here and am glad I did I wonder if there are other tattoo ladies on here with owl tattoo
 
Owls are soooo cute! I haven't seen one in ages - going to some museums in New York first week of June (when im on vacay) and hope to see some history about Owls!!
Love learning about different animals, birds and owls especially.
 
Not all of them are nocturnal either the snowy owls that nest near my house in the winter are active early evenings. I got a lot of pictures of them this past winter


True. I once saw a big snowy owl sitting on a car in a parking lot during a heavy snowfall during the day. Thought it was fake at first. lol It was huge - almost as big as me! :)
 
New York is not Toronto, owls are a novelty there. Everyone wants a piece of Flaco's action, as long as silly humans don't disrupt his night hunts.