It figures when the Postal Circus is involved. Would have it, when I arrived home after work yesterday the moose call was in Morning M ark, I want to thank you again for your outstanding service. don't be too quick to dismiss the sounds of HOOing owls when moose hunting. Maybe a moose have differing voices just as we humans do. Then for some reason he just turned and went the other way and continued to HOO as he went. I never did see that bull, he got close though. It was then I realized that what I had been hearing for the past hour or more not an owl but was actually a bull moose grunting as he approached my position. I pulled off my hat and cupped my hands behind my ears. With about 15 minutes of daylight left I became aware the HOOing was actually getting closer!!

I'd never heard an owl continually hoot like that! I remember specifically thinking the owl must be crazy or something because he just kept HOO HOOing! I guess you could could say I was trying to ambush them or cut them off.Īs the evening wore on I could hear an owl off in the distance. I had chosen this specific area that evening because I had had several bulls approach from that particular direction but not actually come all the way in. I had been calling bull moose near one of my favorite spots for bull moose. However last moose season I too heard what I thought was an owl. So if the habitat where you live consists of any of these birds and/or mammals a Great Horned Owl may be present.Eric, I can't say for sure what you heard was a cow and calf communicating, maybe the sound was actually an owl. Their diet consists of birds, mammals such as rabbits, skunks, hawks, voles, moles, shrews, rats, gophers, chipmunks, squirrels, woodchucks, marmots, prairie dogs, bats, skunks, porcupines, ducks, loons, mergansers, grebes, rails, owls, hawks, crows, ravens, doves, starlings, house cats, and small dogs (like my little Millie…YIKES!). You may see Great Horned Owls in woodlands, swamps, orchards, open fields, city parks, and in suburban areas like ours. That was a lot of fun watching the adults throughout the nesting period and seeing the young. We were also lucky enough one year to have a pair set up their nest in a sycamore across the road from our house. This is the period when we would drive by the nesting bucket looking for the little fur babies popping up out of the nest. It takes about a month or so before eggs begin to hatch and then about six more weeks after that before the babies leave the nest. At the county park close to where I used to live in Ohio, they put a big nesting bucket in a sycamore tree and the Great Horned Owls came to nest there every year for a couple of years. They use the nests of other birds such as hawks, crows, or herons and also squirrel nests, hollows in trees, or artificial platforms. Great Horned Owls start to nest in late December, January, and February. Once it started getting light we couldn’t hear them anymore. Then they moved again and did the same thing all over again. They continued to call for another ten minutes or so. However, a few minutes later we could heard them calling once again a short distance away. The owls continued to call back and forth for about twenty minutes then flew away. The male does a courtship display where he loudly calls to the female and the female responds back to him. It is a pretty intimidating bird especially when you see one sitting so high up looking down on you with its fierce looking eyes and strong talons.ĭid you know that Great Horned Owls mate for life? In October you will hear them calling as they begin to set up their territories. This is the owl that has tufts and large eyes and can swivel its head up to 180 degrees. The female is ten to twenty percent larger than the male but the male has a larger and deeper voice than the female. This owl can be anywhere from 18 inches to 24 inches with wingspans 39 to 57 inches.

The Great Horned Owl is a nocturnal owl and is a year round resident where we live in Kentucky but also throughout North America and also in Central and South America. The pair were making alternating calls to each other that sounds like a deep, soft hoot that goes something like this, hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. One was sitting on the very top and the other was on a cross cable below it. They were up on a high voltage tower that sits about a hundred yards from our house on the other side of our pond. Thankfully with the Binox-HD day/night time binoculars that I got him for his birthday he was able to locate to of them. Jeff (my husband) said that he had heard one a few weeks ago and was diligent about getting outside on our deck early on the weekend mornings waiting to hear it again.

The Great Horned Owl was calling to its mate and its mate was calling back. We finally heard it Sunday morning around 7 AM.

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