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Post by grandpalovegood on Aug 29, 2011 16:20:09 GMT -6
OH MY GOODNESS!!!! In honor of our lost Duddahs.... most likely flying around out in the storm... I've decided to post this thread.. A thread I've had in mind to start for many months now for many reasons. Seems like everywhere I go I see an owl. I have them flying around outside my house... I see them many places out in the stores I shop... where I work... the mall.... figurines... jewelry... Halloween decorations... every time I read the HP series. EVERYWHERE. SO.... I thought it would be fun since there are many different kinds of owls that we could find to create a thread where we can see how many we can come up with. I don't care if it's a quote from any of the books... something you saw out in public.. Post it... describe it.. Lets see how many we can get. Harry Potter ones or not... this could be a place to post owl stories if we know of any... HEY the Tootsie Roll lollypop owl. ;D I mean... I was not but five minutes in the grocery store to purchase some punch only to find some socks with owls on them.  Here I come home to check to see if I have any owls from the Pottermore site. ;D Lets see if this thread can take flight.. How many can you find... and I know you will spot them all over the place now that you have them in mind.  |
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Post by rin68nyr on Aug 29, 2011 16:55:05 GMT -6
We saw some owls on Friday. Barn owls...at the zoo. One was in it's enclosure, and the other was in the bird show, and it flew around for a bit!
Erin
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Post by nz101nz on Aug 30, 2011 8:33:51 GMT -6
Here's a commercial that keeps popping up on Tv constantly:
Not sure what kind of owls they are though. ;D
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Post by Duddahs on Aug 31, 2011 9:19:09 GMT -6
We have Owls in the park where I live and one of their trees came down in the storm.
The bid ole daddy owl just sits on the remants of what lays on the ground at night now. Not sure where he will go when they clean up the park of the downed trees.
The town and streets have to be taken care of first. The park is secondary but still important as that particular tree is partially in the lake that also means it blocks the walkway around the lake.
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Post by grandpalovegood on Aug 31, 2011 12:44:57 GMT -6
I wonder what will happen to him too? Maybe you all will be lucky and he might find a new nesting place within the same area.
When I used to live out in the country, ours was huge. It would fly the same route every night and if I were outside it would swoop down low near me... not diving towards me but just flying low. It was beautiful but it was too dark to make out what type it was. But it always flew from the huge big tree along the back of the property, catty cornered towards a huge tree just past my back yard and to the front of my front yard... the treeline we had our house right next to. It was huge. I wonder if they eat bats? Seemed like they were few of them as time went by. Once the owl stopped showing it's self, the bats slowly but surely returned.
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What I was going to post.... There is a field I pass most mornings, while I drive my short driveacoss town. In that field they have huge round hay bales. I noticed several days this week two huge hawkes just sitting on the same one, facing each other. It was strange to see two in such close proximity. Each time my first thoughts are that they are owls... then I rememebered our owls are much larger around here and not in town.
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Post by Duddahs on Aug 31, 2011 21:06:16 GMT -6
We do have both Owls and Bats at our park and I know for sure that the Owls eat the bats too.
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Post by fangsfan1 on Sept 1, 2011 7:35:41 GMT -6
I was so tickled to see this thread because I saw owls on my vacation! We went to the Gray Animal Farm (Maine Wildlife Park) a place I've never been to and always wanted to go. There were several owls-some beautiful little sawhet owls and screech owls too. The lady there said they all have had either wing injuries or eye injuries and can't return to the wild-so this is a good and safe sanctuary for them.
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Post by Duddahs on Sept 2, 2011 11:38:15 GMT -6
The tree has now been removed from the park. The Owl seems to have moved to another tree in the lower section of the park where the swing sets are.
Hope he stays.
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Post by grandpalovegood on Sept 5, 2011 8:36:18 GMT -6
Well, that is good to hear. I hope he stays too. I know I miss the owl I spoke of earlier. I always wondered what happened to him/her. OK... I have an owl to speak of today. Last night at work, I was put in the housewears department for the first part of the night. WHen I was looking for where something was, I turned a corner only to find a display of cloth lunchboxes. Half of them were covered with little owls. Each owl was looking in a different direction. Boy.. I wish I could get my owl this week. *runs off to check my mailbox* tootles  |
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Post by fangsfan1 on Sept 9, 2011 22:24:55 GMT -6
I always get lots of mail order catalogs in the mail. The other day I got one called Wild Wings-in the middle were two pages of beautiful owl sculptures-had to put that in this thread.
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Post by grandpalovegood on Sept 10, 2011 6:33:16 GMT -6
Ooo yes... a while back I got an email from one of my favorite stores called, Tuesday Mornings... I'm on their mailing list. Anyway, one ad they had a set of beautiful expensive crystall owls... sort of cut like a diamond. I loved the images so much I saved them to my pictures... now where are they now? I have no idea. LOL.
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Post by Duddahs on Sept 10, 2011 7:35:04 GMT -6
I love the HGTV Television Show House Hunters.
While going through a whole list that I have DVR'd I played one back from last month that took place in Jacarta Java Indonesia.
There was a part of the show where the young lady who was looking for a house near the French School she had taken a job at was walking through the open markets.
There she and her friend stopped and were playing with a pair of Baby Owls that a seller had to offer for sale.
That must be so cool to just be able to buy yourself a baby owl like that! I did it with Bull Frogs a few years back and released them into the water in front of my house.
Unfortunately kids come every spring just as they begin to get loud and steal them. I wish they would leave them alone and let them propagate.
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Post by fangsfan1 on Sept 10, 2011 19:08:14 GMT -6
I like that show too-my sister got me into watching it. When they have the part where they have to choose between 3 houses, I ask her to guess which one they'll pick and she almost always gets it right.
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Post by grandpalovegood on Sept 11, 2011 18:50:13 GMT -6
I saw a little Halloween shirt that was orange with black letters. It said, " OWL be back"
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Post by grandpalovegood on Sept 13, 2011 13:36:31 GMT -6
A little blue tin pail. There is a theme of children's preschool books with a little blue owl wearing reading glasses... He's the teacher owl.
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Post by fangsfan1 on Sept 13, 2011 22:46:52 GMT -6
Got home from work and my Halloween order had come in! Little toys to put in the Trick or Treat bags-stickers, bubble blowing stuff in Halloween bottle, bookmarks, pumpkin necklaces-and little crafty owls that you have to put together. My sister and I will look at them this weekend and I'll post here later to say how they turn out.
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Post by Duddahs on Sept 14, 2011 10:45:01 GMT -6
Got home from work and my Halloween order had come in! Little toys to put in the Trick or Treat bags-stickers, bubble blowing stuff in Halloween bottle, bookmarks, pumpkin necklaces-and little crafty owls that you have to put together. My sister and I will look at them this weekend and I'll post here later to say how they turn out. That sounds like so much gun Fangsfan1. I want to come ring your door bell! Trick or Treat~ |
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Post by rin68nyr on Sept 14, 2011 18:45:30 GMT -6
The 2nd grade is putting up a display where each student gets an owl with their name on it, and they write a little bit about themselves...the title? WHO are you? Very cute!
Erin
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Post by grandpalovegood on Sept 15, 2011 6:37:36 GMT -6
I'm so glad that halloween is coming. I always love to go to the craft stores to see what trinkets they have to make or give out to the trick o treaters.
I love that idea you posted. The WHO are you writing assignment. The inventive ways a teacher can reach their students.
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Post by fangsfan1 on Sept 15, 2011 7:42:47 GMT -6
I think that's a really cute idea too. Owls seem to be the in thing this year. I always liked them from when I was a small child and Harry Potter brought it all back to me.
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