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Bird Poop Thread 1: About Bird Poop !

Birding in a nutshell.

 
Birdman, can I get an ID? Saw this guy on my afternoon walk in the foothills just outside Denver.

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Birds have the coolest names to begin with, but that one is particularly tops.
 
I saw a great horned owl last night! Had a massive wing span; had to have been close to 5 or 6 feet. It swooped down in front of my car and landed on a power line in my neighborhood. Will they eat cats? I'm wondering what it might have been hunting in the neighborhood.
 
leftcoastdeac said:
I saw a great horned owl last night! Had a massive wing span; had to have been close to 5 or 6 feet. It swooped down in front of my car and landed on a power line in my neighborhood. Will they eat cats? I'm wondering what it might have been hunting in the neighborhood.
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Yes they will eat cats, but they also eat rabbits, raccoons, opossum, small dogs, foxes, other owls, herons, egrets, and a host of other things. Great Horned owls are seriously bad ass.
 
birdman said:
Yes they will eat cats, but they also eat rabbits, raccoons, opossum, small dogs, foxes, other owls, herons, egrets, and a host of other things. Great Horned owls are seriously bad ass.
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Ah, rabbits. Of course - tons of those around. I did see a fox a few months ago - it crossed the street in front of me. I pulled over to stare at the bird for a few moments because I was just in awe of its size and majesty.
 
Oh, we’ve thought about that.

It’d be tough to do without them knowing, thus creating an even more escalated stress, probably.


So we just try largely ineffective deterrents.



But if’n I could cajole a big ol’ owl into helping out...
 
For comparison to a few other recent posts, I saw a yellow crowned night heron this morning.

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Yes, that is a barred owl. It could be a juvenile, those look like fluffy feathers on the head.
 
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