Who Cooks For You?
Decatur Metro | May 10, 2012 | 12:23 pm
As seen around West Ponce and Adair Street.
Anne writes in…
this cute guy was in my neighbors back yard yesterday afternoon. I was surprised at his size, about as big as a cat when he fluffed out. we have been hearing “who cooks for you” for months and have spotted a pair often in the trees overhead. the neighbors said another slightly larger one was on their front stoop yesterday morning when they opened the door to head to school. they found this one in back when they got home. with owl parents nearby, we took some photos and guarded from a distance. little guy was last seen in the brush. no sign today, hopefully he got up the nerve to fly.
This is fantastic! I love the owls. I caught the family that lives in the trees behind my house on video one early morning a few months ago, here:
Great video, Allison. I have heard owls in my backyard twice this week. I need to do an early morning video stake-out to see if I can get some pix of my own.
Love Love Love this. I am going to show it to my young ‘un who thinks the owls sing just for her every night.
umm.. I fail to see how any of this business about owls is good.
That video is the stuff of nightmares.
VERY COOL!!! We used to sit outside when we lived by Glenlake Park and listen to those owls, “who who who cooks for youuu…..”
Beautiful! I love to hear them chattering away late at night.
slackers
Yeah, in my house, no one cooks for me. I cook for everyone. (My revenge is that I don’t do dishes. Ever. Until someone else picks up food shopping or meal preparation, I don’t plan to touch a dish.)
Thank you for the great photo and thanks Allison, for posting your video! It made my day.
We had one of those land on our deck a couple of years ago. He couldn’t get over the deck railing, and it was very sunny and hot on our deck, so I ended up covering him with a towel and carrying him down to the lawn where it was shady and cooler (under the watchful eye of his mom and dad). After a couple of hours he somehow got back up in his tree and sat there staring at us all day.
They are really cute little fluffballs… but they have HUGE talons!
There is one ( or 2?) near us in the northwest corner of the cemetery who talk most of the night. I know which tree they’re in but have never seen them.
So does anyone know why/what they’re calling? It seems to be about every 45 seconds, dusk to dawn. A great addition to the wild kingdom around (and in!) our house!
http://boingboing.net/2012/04/17/relative-size-of-great-grey-ow.html
relative size of a great grey owl’s body to its feathers
Check out this video on barred owls, from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5zc-NHIipw&feature=related
Oh wow! Thanks for posting this. We’re a devoted audience nearly every night, listening as they hoot from the trees in Decatur Heights.
During the day, our backyard “cafeteria” has been attracting lots of traffic lately with songbird mix and high-energy suet (both from Intown Ace), dried mealworms and crickets, and exceptionally good hummingbird nectar (from The Garden Enthusiast in Tucker). Connecting with the birds is really a magical thing.
Photo caption: WHO are you looking at?