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Two Owls

  • 02-04-2010 10:41pm
    #1
    stopped_clock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭


    I saw a pair of (what I think were) barn owls tonight in Co. Limerick.

    They were calling back and forth for a while, and then they appeared overhead me (and frightened the life out of me!)

    Great to see there are still some around.


    (1st time poster here - excuse my breathless enthusiasm!)


Comments

  • #2
    boneless
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    I am really jealous :D!! Keep an eye out for them!!


  • #3
    stopped_clock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭stopped_clock


    boneless wrote: »
    Keep an eye out for them!!

    Oh I will. I'll certainly recognise their call next time I hear it. It is eerie - especially when there are two calling back and forth.


  • #4
    imbroglio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭imbroglio


    Wow, you're very lucky! i'd absolutely love to see/hear owls in the wild!


  • #5
    Rainbowsend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    I believe the male calls "towit" and female answers "towoo" just a useless bit of information :)


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rainbowsend wrote: »
    I believe the male calls "towit" and female answers "towoo" just a useless bit of information :)

    Nooooooo! :eek:

    The Twit Twoo belongs to the Tawny Owl - which we don't have in Ireland!

    A Tawny Owl never actually calls "twit twoo". In fact the "twit" or more accurately "ke-wick" is a Tawny Owl's contact call and the "twoo" or again more accurately "hoo-hoo-oooo" is the male's territorial call. Consequently, if you hear "ke-wick hoo-hoo-oooo" it is most likely a male answering a female (or another male).


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  • #7
    Half-cocked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    An owl swooped over the M50 near the Ballymun interchange on Saturday night. It looked too big and dark for a Barn Owl, I know there are short eared owls in the area.


  • #8
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Long-eared and Short-eared Owls are both about 17" long with 36" wingspans. OCuld have been either. Great to see!


  • #9
    123oclock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭123oclock


    I have seen either the long/short eared owl about 5 times in the last two weeks near kill kildare....first time i thought it was a buzzard as there are a few nearby but one night it flew right over the car on the slip road just near kill and i knew it was as owl by the way it was flying...i take the same road everyday to work and what i see are glimpses and i know some day soon i am going to crash the car looking to see if i have seen one......


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