OT Wanted: girlfriend for owl

A bobcat wouldn't care. Happy to trade a dozen gators for one hungry predator who has a taste for owls. They taste like chicken. Polly

Send the owl to me. I will introduce him or her to the family in the park nearby. The owlets are learning to fly and could probably use a tutor.

G> We are desperate. There's an owl who screeches every night from just after

Darling lil' Yogi's happiness and peace of mind far outranks a newcomer squatter owl. (As does your and Mr. Esther's sleep.) I'd find 'a way' to make that owl permanently disappear.

Regardless of what it took to make that happen. VBEG!

Leslie & The Furbabies in sweaty/stinky hot, hot, hot, humid MO.

When your owl is happy please someone send a gal for the mockingbird here. He is noisy from midnight or so on. This one is a fine singer but sheesh! good luck there Polly. Taria

We are desperate. There's an owl who screeches every night from just after midnight until dawn. Poor little Yogi pants, paces and rattles the window blinds in terror. Nobody gets to sleep. You may remember that Yogi suffered serious injury from a big bird and he's not forgetting. We must either: find out if that owl is an endangered species, sound-proof the windows or get him a lady friend. Can anyone lend us a bobcat? Polly

One of the nice things about living in The Swamp is we don't have to impress anybody. If that owl upsets Yogi tonight, tomorrow we're going to get serious. I'm thinking of covering the bedroom windows with sheets of insulation and fixing it firmly with duct tape. Outside. It's not going to be pretty but it just might deafen the sound of Lonesome Owl. Polly

I've got one that would love a companion..........and then there's the lovesick DOVE that starts at the slightest lighten-ing of the sky for 2 hours--once you ar wide awake it goes away...only to be followed by a woodpecker....on the house wall. think it works it's way around to the fireplace where it really echoes. Discovered by 'slapping' the indoor wall of the fireplace scares it away........it must think there is a MUCH BIGGER woodpecker already here. LOL

I do think all 3 of these birds FOLLOWED us from the last 2 places we lived here in AZ! I actually start using earplugs at 4:55 AM. Wonder if you could get Yogi to keep them in?

Butterfly

On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 13:43:11 -0500, Taria wrote (in article ):

I'm not sure how the General would far against an owl. But he'd likely dispatch that mockingbird pretty quick. Every time we here all the pigeons squawking around here, it's because the General has caught another one. We've given up trying to keep count.

Maureen

Happy to report that our owl has found a girl friend on his own. We wish them a long and happy relationship. Polly

Perhaps that was what all the noise was about!! . In message , Polly Esther writes

woohoo for true love, or just a one night stand. whatever makes the fellow happy! Taria

Happy to report that our owl has found a girl friend on his own. We wish them a long and happy relationship. Polly

I told ours that yours was 'hunting' and I haven't heard it since after the night you posted and I sent it on its' way. Wonder if it made it to you???????

Now for the other 2............ just because I 'can' sleep in...

Butterfly

Polly I'm a little late in telling you what I think might work. It worked for us when we were bothered by neighborhood dogs and I'll bet it would quiet your owl also. Robert Redford put out a tape of wolf calls. Nothing on it but howling. We set a speaker out on the flat roof part of the house and had the tape deck beside the bed. When the dogs would begin "talking" to one another while we were trying to sleep we'd reach down, hit the on button, the howl would begin and the barking would stop. COMPLETLY STOP. Not a peep from anything. Now I'll bet that a pack of wolfs would shut your owl up and probably anything else within earshot. It doesn't take much of it either. Maybe you can keep it in mind for next time.

TWILA ! I love it, we love it. Wonderful solution. Will keep that in mind forever. Just now apparently the owl has found companionship and all is quiet - but there may be another time and another loud and lonesome critter. DH used to have a delightful tape of what sounded like Martians crunching/munching bones that he played for Halloween visitors. Lots of giggling joined the scary fun. Polly

Whew! I'm so glad to hear this, Polly -- can't have Yogi all panicky, after all! :)