My friend

[Peter Drouin]

I was working out cutting logs for my demo this week end and I saw him going in for lunch

 
so I got a little closer


 
so he was so good to sit for me we had a talk about the chipmunks and the garden :D :D :D :D I know some people on this forum would shoot him but I like him so he can work for me :D :D
later when I got back I was in the mill shed an saw him get a chipmunk, I yelled eat them all  :D :D :D :D Good boy :D :D
nice, God has this all planned out ;D

[Chuck White]

Looks like a Great Gray Owl.

You were fortunate to see him, much less get a picture!

They do clean up a lot of little critters!

Great to have them around!

[Ron Scott]

Great picture!

[thecfarm]

I have never seen an owl. I was showing the wife the lines and one kept "whoing" at us,but we never saw it and it was close. It kept flying in front of us. Nice picture.

[clww]

Great picture, Peter.

[Magicman]

   That is a nice picture of your friend.     I will never forget the first one that I ever saw.   

[Peter Drouin]

It might be the same one I don't know :D

 

they all look alike :D :D but this ones smaller I think.
after looking at the 2, the white between the eyes are different what do you think :D

[martyinmi]

One animal I've never taken out is a chipmunk. Never even encouraged another animal to do so. :'(

Perhaps that Owl could be trained to be a herbivore? :D Or at least subject it to a little herbivorous training? 8)

Chipmunks are just too cute. ;)

On a bit more serious note Peter- that is a beautiful animal. We have quite a few of them here in mid Mi. We've always called the ones here "Barn Owls", but I'm sure that they have proper names. They do not appear to be as big as the ones that you've posted.

[clww]

Chipmunks are cute, right up to when they start nibbling on the tomatoes and cucumbers. >:(

[WmFritz]

Both of those are great pictures. Barred owls I think... related to the spotted owls.

[Riggs]

Fantastic pictures!!

[beenthere]

I take out the chipmunks, as they dig behind the stone walls and are in to everything. I don't get 'em all, but keep the pop'n thinned a bit. Sometimes they have been a real challenge.

[Clark]

The barred owl's key identifying feature is the horizontal stripes just below it's chin and the vertical stripes on it's chest/belly.   I'm at best a shade-tree ornithologist but it looks rather small to be a barred but since I often see them on the wing and not sitting like that...don't take my word!

Clark

[thecfarm]

I have a cat that catches chipmunks. I'm surprised there is one in a square mile of this place. He had one in his month and came into the green house when a customer was here. The customer was not happy. I picked the cat up and the chipmunk bit me. 

[mesquite buckeye]

That's how it goes. I'm sure that was your fault too. Poor furry creature. Mean man.

We have a pair of those owls every year in our east draw at the Missouri farm. Super cool, thanks for sharing.

[Jeff]

I know some people on this forum would shoot him

Where in the world did that come from? I can't think of a soul on here that I would single out to say they would shoot that owl if they saw it. Not a one.

It is a Barred owl. Here is a photo I took of one at Tom's several years ago.

[Warbird]

Nice pictures!  Owls are cool looking creatures.

[SwampDonkey]

Shooting of raptors is forbidden around here even if it weren't against the law, and it is. I've hunted game birds since a young age and was warned from the start that raptors were no touch or the hunting would come to a quick end. ;)

Here's Chip and Dale for Marty.



And he can have the cat to, which is quite obvious isn't much of a hunter. ;D

[T Welsh]

All great pictures! Tim

[Peter Drouin]

I know some people on this forum would shoot him

Where in the world did that come from? I can't think of a soul on here that I would single out to say they would shoot that owl if they saw it. Not a one.






Just the way some people talk on here, sorry

[Chuck White]

Here, I can't think of anyone who would shoot and owl, primarily because of what they do.

Besides that, it's against the law!

[beenthere]

I too, have never heard of anyone shooting an owl. Some will shoot at hawks, but that may be leftover from when farmers had free-run chickens and the hawks would dine on them with regularity.

Varmint hunting is different (for me), and I will admit to taking out a few downy's that can't leave my wood house siding alone. Or even a robin that won't quit whitewashing my windows. Nor a jenny wren that insisted on building her nest of sticks on the exhaust manifold of my tractor.

But no owls. The one in the pic looked awesome.

[justallan1]

Thanks for the pictures. I have one that lives in my barn that will give you a wake-up call when you don't expect it. I wish it would bring home a few of it's friends to help cut down on the mice.
Allan

[Sprucegum]

Nice pictures!

We had three little guys at our camp summer before last. They flew from tree to tree all afternoon making mournful squaking noises. I tried to entice them with a bit of hot dog wiener but no deal. Their heads would crank right around as they watched me circle the tree  :D Finally momma owl came flying through the clearing making a wierd barking sound, I guess its hard to hoot with a mouse in your mouth, and all three little ones flew after her.

I watched for them last summer but they never returned  :(

[rooster 58]

    Awesome pictures. One of the amazing things about owls is the way they fly so silently through the woods. When one streaks by my tree stand while I'm hunting it really spooks me