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TwitTwooTwat · 02/04/2025 02:06

I have owl rage, and I need to let it all owl-t. AIBU to dislike owls and their twit-twoo hooting fuckery?

I know I might ruffle some feathers with this opinion, but a owl has moved nearby and every night I can hear it making less than whootiful night noises. It’s being antisoci-owl. Probably trying to attract a mate. The only time we don’t hear it, is when it rains as it is, ahem, too-wet-to-woo.

Local FB page weirdos say they love hearing it, but how I can I get the feathery fuckwit to go Hoo-dini without it turning into a Hoot-dunnit? I don’t want someone to talon me. Anyone know any owlchemy?

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Pootles34 · 02/04/2025 13:15

Ah but you can pretend you're on Traitors with the peacocks at least. Get yourself a long fringe and lots of eye liner and you'll be set.

countrygirl99 · 02/04/2025 10:30

ItsaMeMummio · 02/04/2025 10:24

Just be grateful you don't have a neighbour with fucking peacocks. There's some in our village and they're even worse than owls. They scream at every noise (including owls, they don't seem to like owls either) all night in spring/summer 😤

And the sound is like someone calling "help" nearly gave me a heart attack the first time I heard one early one morning as it was coming from.just the other side of the village graveyard.

ItsaMeMummio · 02/04/2025 10:24

Just be grateful you don't have a neighbour with fucking peacocks. There's some in our village and they're even worse than owls. They scream at every noise (including owls, they don't seem to like owls either) all night in spring/summer 😤

IntermittentFarting · 02/04/2025 10:20

Boligrafo · 02/04/2025 08:41

They are all that, I agree but a little owl going ‘Woop…. Woop….Woop’ outside your bedroom window at 3 am for an hour, apparently with an amplifier, is a bit much all the same.

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Noo! Sounds enchanting! Far better than my DHs snoring.

pointythings · 02/04/2025 09:19

I have reported this thread so that MNHQ can put it where it belongs in Classics. It's a hoot!

ShodAndShadySenators · 02/04/2025 08:55

ShriekingTrespasser · 02/04/2025 08:45

It can’t be worse than the shrieking, yelping, wailing foxes we have.

Yes, the foxes are worse. And those doves that "coo coo COO" for ages. And the gulls that mysteriously party in the middle of the night. We're not even on the coast for goodness sake!

I sometimes hear the tawny owl pair we have nearby, but not often. So I'm not sick of them. I only tend to hear them if I've been woken by the foxes or partying gulls. When I hear the owls I think "Ah, less little rodents scuttling around".

Saisong · 02/04/2025 08:54

We've got an Owl this year who is hooting during the day, it sounds so sad 😞

On a lighter note, this is the baby that hung around our garden last year

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WillItEverWork · 02/04/2025 08:49

BeaAndBen · 02/04/2025 08:28

@VWT5 - minor point, but red kites aren’t predators, they are scavengers. I’ve seen a blur tit escape a red kiter’s talons; they have a very weak grip.

They’ll take chicks or eggs but mostly their diet is things that are already dead. An owl would have no reason to be put off by one. with them.

@TwitTwooTwat - you have a pair of you’re hearing twit twoo. They’ll be less chatty soon.

Yes to red kites being scavengers, I couldn’t get one to move out of the narrow country lane for ages as it was devouring some roadkill! They are bloody massive close up, especially when they fully extend their wings!!!

Hemlocked · 02/04/2025 08:45

You Are Being Unreasonab-owl

ShriekingTrespasser · 02/04/2025 08:45

It can’t be worse than the shrieking, yelping, wailing foxes we have.

Boligrafo · 02/04/2025 08:41

IntermittentFarting · 02/04/2025 08:35

YABU. Owls are the best. They’re like mythical creatures. Send your owls this way, I’d love to hear them. 🦉🦉

They are all that, I agree but a little owl going ‘Woop…. Woop….Woop’ outside your bedroom window at 3 am for an hour, apparently with an amplifier, is a bit much all the same.

ShriekingTrespasser · 02/04/2025 08:38

Send it my way! I’d love an owl

Iknowaboutpopular · 02/04/2025 08:37

I see what you did there 😏
I could cope with an owl, i reckon.
D'ya know what really gets on my nerves though, fuggin wood pigeons!! Not only do they make an unholy noise down my chimney every morning, they shit on the roof of my car. Dickheads.

Feelingstrange2 · 02/04/2025 08:36

We had a local screech owl for a time. We appear to have outlived him.

Don't have any owls at the moment but the gulls make a racket when the boats come in and offload which, luckily, varies on tides but can be very early mornings and very annoying

IntermittentFarting · 02/04/2025 08:35

YABU. Owls are the best. They’re like mythical creatures. Send your owls this way, I’d love to hear them. 🦉🦉

Uberella · 02/04/2025 08:32

At you get some twit twoo’s;the bloody ones where I live screech their heads off;it’s an awful noise.

Ellmau · 02/04/2025 08:29

It’s being antisoci-owl. Probably trying to attract a mate.

But it's trying to be soci-owl by attracting a mate...

And produce lots of little owlets to too-wit-too-woo next year!

Sorry it was keeping you awake though...

BeaAndBen · 02/04/2025 08:28

@VWT5 - minor point, but red kites aren’t predators, they are scavengers. I’ve seen a blur tit escape a red kiter’s talons; they have a very weak grip.

They’ll take chicks or eggs but mostly their diet is things that are already dead. An owl would have no reason to be put off by one. with them.

@TwitTwooTwat - you have a pair of you’re hearing twit twoo. They’ll be less chatty soon.

Boligrafo · 02/04/2025 08:26

I love owls, but I remember occasionally being driven mad by them calling very loudly in the early hours in a wood immediately behind our house when we lived in Leicestershire — I can’t sleep with the windows closed, and it did sound as if they were hunting inside my bedroom. I think I once threw a shoe out the windows and roared ‘Fuck off, owls!’

malmi · 02/04/2025 08:25

I told an owl I was getting married, he went “you twit, to who”?

Bolide · 02/04/2025 08:22

I have an owl, he lives in the trees behind my house, it is a nature reserve. I LOVE hearing him at night

Pootles34 · 02/04/2025 08:19

I was told the 'twit' is the female, the 'twoo' is the male. You remember it as the female is calling the male a twit, and he's saying 'who me?'.

TheTecknician · 02/04/2025 08:12

The familiar 'twit-twoo' sound is a male and female call and response. They're quite territorial birds so once they've established their patch they're unlikely to move.

Summerhillsquare · 02/04/2025 05:47

Me too! A lovelorn owl at that.

FancyNewt · 02/04/2025 04:42

I want an owl.now.

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