O^O (OWLS)

love this dude

http://www.nabirding.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SO-3a.jpg

http://www.nabirding.com/2012/02/12/when-a-snowy-met-the-locals/

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/195576_100001337973665_3429166_n.jpg

I had this insane and really frightening dream a couple weeks ago where, during a blizzard, a snowy owl was hovering outside my window just floating in the same spot and staring at me with red eyes. I kept trying to run away and hide from it but it wouldn't leave. So creepy ans strange esp because I like them normally.

That owl says "WHOOP WHOOP!"

http://de.acidcow.com/pics/20091007/owl_05.jpg

That story is awesome though as is this pic:

http://www.nabirding.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Rick-107.jpg

winking owl!

so many creatures out there in this world are so utterly ludicrous, <3 them all

That nabirding link isn't working for me at all!

OMG

http://www.nabirding.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SO-11.jpg

OWLS! I FEEL GOOD!

I like the way this thread is going.

that is a pretty awesome dream, ENBB! owls in dreams are good imo even if they seem scary at the time/when you wake up.

Had one of these dudes (a boobook owl) in our yard last night, making its cry that gives it its name (boo-book!), made our dog crazy

http://www.flashman.com.au/images/coaster_1/boobook_owl5.jpg

Not my photo, sadly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SLfeTYU09_E

I had this insane and really frightening dream a couple weeks ago where, during a blizzard, a snowy owl was hovering outside my window just floating in the same spot and staring at me with red eyes. I kept trying to run away and hide from it but it wouldn't leave

http://api.ning.com/files/I*ofqcyvyKbTJ62PITE63Ibl0PhSnUhKjNIBawqMy0wRHG7lFEogR8RCOhOdDMX0*LSh*NDX4CDIEL6dQ0-SlByrIZpNhHDM/communion.jpg

maybe my favorite YouTube ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rp-CaIKvQs

that is the greatest!!!!

the way it turns into skinny wet cat vampire owl is AWESOME

Whoa that owl!!! (Starts at ~ 1:41)

first rate owl work here guys

Apparently the most popular thing to get tattooed on necks.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgwdbfoT11qitqtto1_500.png

now that's just silly, imagine waking up next to that.

"that" = the facial hair?

imagine waking up next to that

No prodding needed.

now that's just silly, imagine waking up next to that.

Especially if you're a mouse.

Late great - not too far off! It was one stare-y and spooky dream owl. Also, enormous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37MNE8tOBG4

http://gunshowcomic.com/comics/20120302-kramerisanowl.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bFmwp-p1Sc

this video makes me happy

an owl flew into my dad's windshield once driving home. when he walked over to it where it had fallen. it got up and started walking around and clucking. i think it was stunned because it started following him back to the car. he decided not to bring it home.

peabody bath champion!

:D

a local avian rescue place posted this picture with an owl they found in the ditch next to a busy road. get well soon, little guy!
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/313711_10151380705703510_1623138047_n.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6XP8exJ.gif

the owls are not what they seem

<3

PPlains bought me the entire series of Twin Peaks. Hes never seen it and now when I think about Bob Im too scared to watch it again.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BXOmdixCMAEPJka.jpg

MY GOD LOOK AT THEM

http://31.media.tumblr.com/61931ab3a27cde4a05612198c3f91448/tumblr_n7hco1OnrU1qb6v6ro1_250.gif
http://37.media.tumblr.com/18ab7ad51ba24c81c612a25ca0365831/tumblr_n7hco1OnrU1qb6v6ro2_250.gif
http://38.media.tumblr.com/ccff25615ed69f800981660186b0068d/tumblr_n7hco1OnrU1qb6v6ro3_250.gif
http://31.media.tumblr.com/98d30b64183fd3ba6dbcf1dd7a1507af/tumblr_n7hco1OnrU1qb6v6ro4_250.gif

http://i57.tinypic.com/2ep7jvb.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJ7WWWVCcAAnHnH.jpg:large

Owls can exhibit a remarkable head stability during angular movement of the body about any axis passing through the skull.
K.E. Money 1962. See THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM OF THE OWL
Author(s): Money, K.E.; Correia, M.J.
Abstract: Owls have a curious variability in the postrotatory head nystagmus following abrupt angular deceleration. Owls can exhibit a remarkable head stability during angular movement of the body about any axis passing through the skull. The vestibular apparatus in the owl is bigger than in man, and a prominent crista neglecta is present. The tectorial membrane, the cupula, and the otolithic membranes of the utricle, saccule and lagena are all "attached" to surfaces in addition to the surfaces bearing hair cells; these attachments are very substantial in the utricular otolithic membrane and in the cupola.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6M-h5g3PwI

That owl looks pissed off.

All owls look kind of pissed off though.

just saw an avian, a strigiform no less, with acephaly issues

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, April 16, 2014 6:20 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^posts that haunt your thoughts

owl burrito

http://www.audubon.org/magazine/january-february-2015/whos-who

Look at those fucking owls. Look at them!

MY GOD LOOK AT THEM

― mh, Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:30 PM (1 year ago)

I love looking at those owls.

"carl agatha" would make a good name for a olw

or a owl

carl owlgatha

stolenowl

http://i60.tinypic.com/2zs32wk.jpg

http://animal-diversity.tumblr.com/post/59900883148/x

Owls, through no fault of their own, seem to have become the latest decorative motif, following the path taken in earlier years by such disparate organisms as amanita mushrooms, geese, and Guernsey cows. Churning out owl-adorned and owl-shaped merchandise now accounts for nearly 1% of the Chinese export economy.

http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b01bb08269c8f970d-800wi

http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2015/04/sooty-owl-chick-training-for-bird-show.html

xpost owls have been ruling the brooklyn decorative scene for at least 3 years, they were neck and neck with squid for awhile but are now undisputed

I did a long lost bag of laundry yesterday which revealed an owl tote, took it to work today instead of my satchel. I'm as vulnerable as anyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6wGSx4RMLU

I got to poke an owl in the head last week. Owl heads are teeny tiny, it's just that they have loads of feathers. But if you poke through the feathers at the back of an owl's neck, there's quite a long way to go, relatively speaking, before you get to actual owl skull.

Owls are great and I felt a bit icky poking about the back of his neck. But it was positively encouraged and the owl didn't seem to mind.

Without their feathers they seem to be vulture-shaped

what an insouciant little chap

https://i.imgur.com/oxkQdK0.jpg

That took me a looooong time to get

does it have to do with the wheels

yes

I get it!

🤓🤓 pic.twitter.com/zEcRWp6GdK

— Gaml .y (@m_yosry2012) May 12, 2018

Amazing

We saw what we think was a southern Boobook on the he way to the station tonight, sitting on a power line.

http://d3lp4xedbqa8a5.cloudfront.net/s3/digital-cougar-assets/AusGeo/2017/06/29/65390/Southern-Boobook.jpg

Image not mine from Australian Geographic

There's a Barred Owl sitting on a dead fir branch in my backyard. It's been there all afternoon, even when I was puttering back there within 25 feet of it. Other birds have been coming by and yelling at it, especially this one Steller's Jay, but it seems imperturbable.

Tonight at dusk there will be a massive fireworks show about a mile from our house. Each year it sounds like a battery of howitzers going off for more than 20 minutes. I don't expect it will stick around much for the show. I hope it likes its nice dead branch and comes back some more, through the summer. It's a better mouser than a cat!

oh nice! get any photos?

My wife did.

https://i.imgur.com/b27u6n0.png

I, for one, welcome our owl overlords pic.twitter.com/p5Cw17czDr

— Daniel Rourke 📉 (@therourke) December 1, 2018

oh shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ik29zMbHaY

i love that very much

I've never seen a happier man!

I was hiking up in the San Gabriels yesterday and on the way down I spotted a funny looking rock in the middle of the trail that I didn't recall seeing on the way up. I was just about to poke at it when it instantly pointed an eye at me, spread wings, and flew off.

Meet the flammulated owl!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25uGhYOz04g