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No_rice
Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 09:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)


i tried that once with a black bird and my yzf at 165mph. talk about a bloody mess. it went right through the windscreen. all that was left were the feet and tail feathers hanging in it. a bone or something put a nice cut from the middle of my nose to the middle of my cheek(yes i was crouched behind the windscreen with no helmet). i was blood and guts from the middle of my chest to the top of my head. i got home and my now ex wife about had a stroke, lol thought it was all my blood all over my face. it was perfect timing, NOT. a kid had just called and bought it over the phone so i just HAD to take it out for one last ride and play. he didnt even care. it all worked out anyway. he never even test rode it, just payed me, loaded it up and left with it.
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Danny_h__jesternut
Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 09:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I feel bad for that poor owl, Hooters I like.
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Tramp
Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 09:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That's a shame. That's a Barred Owl, strix varia, unless the pic is from Europe, in which case it's a Tawny Owl strix aluco.
They're the kooky, loud owls you hear out in swamps at night, esp. in The South.
Semi-tame and curious, they used to fly to my campsites when I was a kid and kind of shift their head up and down and side to side at my campfires.
Big dark eyes. nice critter.
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1313
Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 10:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Well, one thing's for sure. A Yamaha R1 is faster than a speeding owl!

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Tramp
Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 11:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

now, waitaminnit- clearly they were moving toward each other....
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Buellfighter
Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 11:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Ever stop to think that maybe all the years of chasing rodents and dodging predators had caught up with him and he'd decided he'd had enough!
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Blake
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 12:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Owls, the original stealth attack aviators.
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Tramp
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 01:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

absolutely. scary silent wings.
i've had owl pets who loved to buzz the poor UPS guy.
just the UPS guy. fun little cusses, owls.

(Message edited by tramp on December 12, 2005)
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M2nc
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 01:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

My daughter and I had a close encounter with a Red Tail Hawk. He thought he could out run us, but when we closed in on him he pulled a cool maneuver and banked off as we passed just under him. Carlee thought it was cool and it was.

We have Owls around here, but the real concern are Cranes and Turkey Buzzards. The latter is a huge bird with a six foot plus wing span. It's happened to me more than once that I come around a curve to find a Buzzard over some road kill and the big slow bird launches to get away. I haven't hit one yet, but have been close several times in the cage. I would hate to find out what a impact with one of those on a bike would do.
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Doughnut
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 01:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Tramp, always liked owls, do they make a good pet? Most "exotic" I have gotten is a Bermese and a Timna (sp?).
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Bake
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 10:26 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I had one hit my truck windshield during twilight at highway speed, what an experience that was!
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Tramp
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 10:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

owls make great pets, but I'm pretty sure that, to keep them legally, you'd need all kinds of permits regardless of state. Lotsa federal protection and all. My first pet wol was one my mom brought home long ago, that had been hit by a car. Little screesh owl. He'd sustained a serious concussion, lost an eye and an ear, and had a paralyzed side.
Over time his paralysis improved, and over a few years he (somehow) started catching his own food (i raised rats, and I always allowed a few to run around my barn, where my owl was kept), and eventually he'd stay away for longer and longer periods of time at night.
years later i'd been hospitalized after a jaunt in the south pacific, and a friend, who cut trees for living, contacted me about a tree they cut up that turned out to have three freshly-hatched tiny owls. caring for those little golf-ball sized fuzzies gave me something to do while i was recuperating, and soon I had three screech owls imprinted on me, as 'mom'.
They'd walk behind me in the house, fly from tree to tree with me outside the house, land on the shoulders of unsuspecting strangers, and harrass the UPS guy to no end.
I did state field biology work back then, and when senior fish & wildlife oofficers would visit the house, and see three screech owls, a tame kestrel (Sparrow hawk) on the TV aerial (remember TV aerials?) who'd dive down to the front porch rail to examine visitors, tame foxes and 'coons following my mom around while she hung out the laundry, they had to try to 'loook the other way'.
none of my critters was caged or leashed, so there was no proving they were pets anyway.
No laws against tame critters hanging around the yard.
oh- one more thing about pet owls- they live to pull pranks on the cat. touch & goes off the cat's head, sneaking up behind the cat and shrieking at her/him, staring the cat down, owls will provide your cat with hours of "fun"
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Bomber
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 11:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

we've got a number of owls in my neck o the woods -- no clue as to their genus or other latin deignations (upper Illinois Oak Savanah, if that's a help)

generally they just talk amungst themselves of an evening, lending a wonderful "Last of the Mohigans" ambiance to the neighborhood . . . we rarely see em, and when we do they've just doin their "Silent Death From Above" routine on some rodents in the yard

every once in a while, tho, a couploe of em get in an argument -- scarey noises from the tree line, indeed!
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Ceejay
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 12:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Anyone ever come across one without the head? A friend of mine and I were walking a ditchbank a few years ago and found an owl with much the same markings as the above picture...We could only figure that he hit the power line while focused on some prey that was further in field than where we found him. Beautiful birds though. Used to listen the them and the coons hunting at night when I was growing up...
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Johnnylunchbox
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 01:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Ceejay - I'd be willing to bet that owl was likely the victim of a fox attack, or was already dead and scavenged by a fox. The missing head is a telltale fox sign as far as I know. I'm sure a resident biologist will chime in soon.
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Ceejay
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 03:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That's what a friend said, he couldn't remember the animal but that there was an animal that would eat the heads off of things, Fox huh, is that why they are "Crazy"
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