Who? (Hoo!)
Eggbert has always disliked birds...you name it, magpies, ravens, even chickens 
His new nemesis: OWLS! 
It is apparently Great Horned Owl mating season here, and a bunch of them have decided that the big cottonwood trees just outside our bedroom window are a good place to do their courting  The damned things are loud enough as it is...loud enough to keep me awake (Scott can sleep through anything)...but now Bert has decided he hates them and BARKS every time they hoot!  ...which is all night long!. Grrrr!
Normally, I'm all for owls hanging out in our yard, as they eat the voles and squirrels that Id just as soon get rid of. But...I can see that this is going to get old very fast. Im not sure if I can take another night of: Hoo! *BARK!* Hoo! *BARK!*, etc....! Anybody know how to discourage owls?  Or convince Bert to at least chill out about them? 
The local Wildlife are just not my friends today...up all night with the blasted owls, then went out on the trails with the sheepies and almost got run down by a moose! Separate story that I may post about later...I'm still not down off the adrenalin surge! |
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| Oh, my!!! Moose are scary! At least you and the dogs are OK. Not sure what to tell you about the owl. Che has a fit every time there's a dog on TV (made watching Westmin interesting  ) Even a dog barking in the background makes him crazy, he runs to the TV and stands there barking He's gotten a little bit better lately. Maybe Bert will get bored?  How long does mating season last? Kristine |
| Sure know where you're coming from...we have had the same experience in CharlestonSC and the mountains in NC! The good news is they seem to do in a short period of time. Don't know of anything to make them go somewhere else. Are there dog ear plugs? Maybe a great idea for a new business? I love seeing the cute pets on commercials but have to change channels as both my dogs bark when they see a dog on TV...how do you train them it's just the TV? I wonder if sponsors know that pet owners change the channel because of the dogs barking? |
| can you sleep with music playing? loud classical? or whatever, but i'm thinking maybe some good ole fashion rocknroll like the who.   |
No real suggestions, just hoping owl mating season passes quickly.  Some cotton earplugs with an ace wrap around his head to hold it all in place? And the moose....tell us more! |
| Owls mating? Run down by a moose? Gee, you really do live in the "country" Its a bid deal here for us to see a few Deer Owls don't like the light. Is it possible to point a bright spot light into the trees? Of course away frm the house so not to light up your bedroom while sleeping! |
| We used a bark alarm for Ru, its a box you plug in which emits a high pitch (too high for people to hear) sound when they bark. Ru was quickly put off barking at the foxes mating outside in our yard and now he doesn't pay any attention to them at all. |
Ashley wrote: Owls mating? Run down by a moose? Gee, you really do live in the "country" Its a bid deal here for us to see a few Deer Owls don't like the light. Is it possible to point a bright spot light into the trees? Of course away frm the house so not to light up your bedroom while sleeping! Wow...why the heck didnt I think of this???  We have an outside light on the balcony off of our bedroom. Ill just turn it a bit to shine into the trees tonight, and see if that discourages them!Yeah...Im sorta in the boonies But...my moose encounter was actually on a walking trail in the city (Anchorage). Many "urban" moose there. |
got sheep wrote: And the moose....tell us more! This is actually a "stupid people" story! We were out with friends on whats called the "Coastal Trail", a multi-use trail that runs many miles along the ocean and the edge of downtown Anchorage. It is a leash-only trail for dogs, and also has skiers, winter bicyclists, etc. There were a lot of moose out and about near the trail, but no worries, since they were just minding their own business, eating willow shoots, and for the most part so blase' about people and dogs that they didn't even turn their heads to look at us! (no...we took no pictures of the moose  we were more focused on getting past them without the dogs noticing! ) We were on our return leg (of an 8 mile hike  ) when I noticed something hinky with one of Bert's booties and called a stop so I could check it. Just then, somebody in our group yelled a warning, and I look up just in time to see a huge moose running straight at us, full tilt!!! I yanked Bert off to the side of the trail, and he thundered on past....with a loose black lab hot on his heels . My friend tried to grab the dog, but no luck. We continued on...keeping a very sharp eye out...and had several other walkers approach us to ask if we knew who's dog the lab was. Everyone was ticked off, as well as shook up, as the moose had narrowly missed running over them as well. A bit further up the trail, a woman shows up with not only the off-lead lab, but an off-lead husky...that approaches our dogs aggressively! I was kinda distracted by calming Bert down (my sweet, calm boy was now officially pissed off and barking at the damn husky) But my friend gave the stupid woman a very large piece of her mind I think several other folks did too, as she continued along  All in all though, it was a great day...Ill be posting some (calmer) images of the Coastal Trail as soon as I figure out how to download off of Scott's camera |
| Wow, that would be freaky! I admire your restraint on not reaming that idiot woman out...... Pictures of course sound fabulous! |
| A couple of large plastic snakes hanging in the trees should fix your problem. We can usually pick them up in a toy store here. |
Chauncey wrote: A couple of large plastic snakes hanging in the trees should fix your problem. We can usually pick them up in a toy store here. That's a really interesting solution  ....but I suspect it may only work in areas where there are snakes ....I dont think "our" owls would know a snake if it, um, bit them! |
| Some low voltage lights that just plugged into a normal power socket pointed into the tree worked for my Mom at getting rid of the approx 200 starlings that took up residence in her big elm tree. |
| Wow--what a moose story! How scary! As for the owls, could you play a CD of owls in the house during the day to try and desensitize Bert from the noise, that way at night he's used to it? I just feel bad about kicking out mating birds |
barney1 wrote: Wow--what a moose story! How scary! As for the owls, could you play a CD of owls in the house during the day to try and desensitize Bert from the noise, that way at night he's used to it? I just feel bad about kicking out mating birds After a couple of nights now, he does seem to have gotten over it, actually We do have a daytime version going on also...that would be the ravens Instead of "Hoo-ha-hoo-hoo", its more like "Squack! Gurgle? Coo-coo...BRAAAAAACK!!! Burble-burble" ...etc. My friend Liz always teases me that we have a house that somehow puts birds "in the MOOD "  |
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