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Started out this morning and didn't hear anything except one faint gobble that I wasn't sure where it was. I decided to hoof it to a big field so I worked my way up there and sat down. Right after I got set up a bird gobbled so I went up in the woods behind me trying to get above him. He kept gobbling and I finally saw him skirting the edge of the woods in the field. I sat down and did one soft yelp sequence and he didn't like it and took off. He wasn't running but he was gone so I moved on. Heard another bird and tried getting to him but he shut up and never heard him again. While sitting there had a small buck walk 15 yards from me and he had nubs where his antlers had started growing back. On the way back toward the truck I was watching where I was stepping when I heard the flapping of wings. I looked up and it was a huge owl not more than 15-20 yards in front of me. I looked over and saw a dead tree and decided to see if that's where it came from. Sure nuff there was a baby owl, an egg, and today's lunch or dinner. I've spent a lot of time in the woods in my life and never saw anything like this before. Thought it was pretty cool.
 
That is very cool.

That baby is pretty good size in relation to little brother. I wonder if it's not going to hatch. Also, a google search says that Barn owls usually lay 5 to 6 eggs. The female starts incubating the eggs as soon as the first egg is laid, and lays an egg every 2-3 days.The eggs hatch after 31-32 days incubation, and will hatch in the order they were laid (ie 2-3 day intervals).
 
Awesome shot of the little owl. Nothing I love more than listening to the owls each morning, as long as it's not googans with locator calls :rotf:
 
That's a cool picture of the baby owl. As many years as I have hunted, I have never seen a baby owl or nest.
 
Setterman":2yirem19 said:
Awesome shot of the little owl. Nothing I love more than listening to the owls each morning, as long as it's not googans with locator calls :rotf:
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Different strokes. I almost always get the chorus started. Sometimes I get them a little too cranked up and they start having a hooting frenzy and laughing that I can't hear any gobbling.
 
So cute, but don't try to pick one up.... they will sink their baby talons to the bone. I learned that one the hard way once

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megalomaniac":19ieb31s said:
So cute, but don't try to pick one up.... they will sink their baby talons to the bone. I learned that one the hard way once

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That's one of the first things I noticed was the size of those things already. He "chatted" his beak at me a few times and I didn't know if he was trying to fend me off or thinking I had food.
 

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