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Post by Duddahs on Jul 14, 2015 12:43:26 GMT -6
Did anyone notice the solar powered Hedwig Duddahs found in Newport while on vacation to add to his garden? He lights up at night and glows white and his eyes shine too.  |
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Post by fangsfan1 on Jul 17, 2015 7:32:06 GMT -6
For fun, I change my desktop picture every day, now that I have better internet it's easier for me to do this. Today I chose a painting of a barn with horses, pigs, kittens and children in it. When I got it bigger on the desktop, to my surprise there is a whole family of owls in the rafters!
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Post by rin68nyr on Sept 9, 2015 18:04:42 GMT -6
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Post by fangsfan1 on Oct 7, 2015 20:52:56 GMT -6
A couple owl things for me lately. First, I got a really cool owl for my birthday-he is motion activated and hoots and turns his head and his eyes light up when you walk by. He will be fun on Halloween. Also I went to the Fryeburg Fair today, lots of quilts in the expo with owls on them, very well done too.
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Post by fangsfan1 on Nov 8, 2015 12:56:18 GMT -6
As many times as I walk by my town's newspaper office I never noticed this. I looked up today and saw a big grey owl (not real) on the roof looking down at me. Not sure how long it has been there but I immediately thought of this thread here at the Lounge.
Now my sister tells me that these owl statues are often used to keep off birds from doing damage to flat roofs-I never knew that.
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Post by misscharlotte on Nov 8, 2015 13:28:51 GMT -6
As many times as I walk by my town's newspaper office I never noticed this. I looked up today and saw a big grey owl (not real) on the roof looking down at me. Not sure how long it has been there but I immediately thought of this thread here at the Lounge. Now my sister tells me that these owl statues are often used to keep off birds from doing damage to flat roofs-I never knew that. I find this so funny that you found it ON TOP of your newspaper office building.  Oh how fitting.
I never knew about these owls until a couple of years ago. Around here, we often travel through a bunch of rinky dink towns just to get to a main road we want to travel on. One day I noticed one on the pointed top of some town's town hall. Hubby told me what you were told. I've often heard that they are also placed on fence posts near gardens to ward off snakes. However, this is a myth.
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Post by Duddahs on Mar 24, 2016 9:04:41 GMT -6
It feels like SPRING!  |
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Post by fangsfan1 on Mar 4, 2017 19:57:02 GMT -6
Wow, its been a while since we posted on this one! I got a little book about owls in my Christmas stocking. It's really for kids but I found it very interesting and lots of great pix. It says there are at least 155 species of owls, I had no idea!
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Post by Duddahs on May 29, 2017 21:34:45 GMT -6
Our park Owls are nesting again! Babies soon hopefully.
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Post by fangsfan1 on Jun 5, 2017 18:34:15 GMT -6
That is so cool Duddahs, the babies must be adorable. On explore.org they have several owl cams and one showed a mother with babies in the nest-lots of fun to watch.
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Post by Duddahs on Jun 7, 2017 23:21:58 GMT -6
Oh, an Owl cam, sounds like something Duddahs would like.
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Post by fangsfan1 on Aug 11, 2017 19:40:12 GMT -6
This last weekend I didn't see an owl, but we visited a town with owl in it's name-Owlshead, Maine. We visited family there, a beautiful little town and I did see a deer and a blue heron while I was there.
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Post by Duddahs on Aug 28, 2017 22:20:02 GMT -6
Duddahs may not be seeing or hearing more than the one family of Owls at Longbrook Park this year but we sure do have more than our share of Skunks and Raccoons galore! Poor Monty took a full on face hit from a skunk recently but the Raccoons are wreaking havoc! They may be part niffler and parts snifflers!
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Post by fangsfan1 on Sept 17, 2017 18:36:10 GMT -6
Just came back from a really fun long weekend at Boothbay Harbor. Went to the Botanical Gardens which was just amazing. One of the best parts was the children's garden. They had a treehouse and on the way to it there were all these little bird figurines with you guessed it-two little owls.
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Post by Duddahs on Oct 6, 2017 23:31:04 GMT -6
We have baby owls, two by the sounds, Hopes the warm weather helps these late year beauties make it through the Autumn weather here in southern New England. It is a bit late in the season for hatchlings but Duddahs has his talons crossed for their success.
Our Longbrook Park white squirrel s are very active too. Two this year and they seem to have three playful grey squirrels as companions.
Here is to their making it through the winter and continuing to entertain the park visitors
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Post by fangsfan1 on Apr 15, 2018 20:38:24 GMT -6
I've been watching a long eared owl on explore.org. I haven't been able to get on that site much but since I downloaded Foxfire I've been able to get on some of the slower sites again.
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Post by Duddahs on Apr 16, 2018 21:21:19 GMT -6
Duddahs hears the owl at the park his nest resides but has not spotted any in a year. He hopes your Firefox brings all of my kind into your home as we are a truly special species.
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Oh how fitting.
