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Owls

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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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Maitri108 · 02/04/2025 02:14

Sounds like you've got some Tawny Owls nearby. I love owls and I'd be delighted to hear them. Get some earplugs.

RuzGen · 02/04/2025 02:18

I love hearing owls but Ddog would agree with you. She hates the owls

VWT5 · 02/04/2025 02:18

That made me laugh. I get owls just above my head most evenings - I try and repeat their call in the hope of a reply, but wouldn’t admit that publicly.

Could you practice vocalising bird noises yourself to deter your owly? - you could do something predatory and alarming, maybe European eagle owl, red kite, buzzard, that sort of thing?….and deny all knowledge when the neighbours ask if you are ok?

LilacPeony · 02/04/2025 02:19

I hear tawny owls too and I like it. Sorry not much help

MagnoliaTreeBlossom · 02/04/2025 02:51

Owl right, Owl right, Owl right. Sounds like you're feeling owl-verwhelmed with the hooting noises owl night long.

Personally, I love owls with their beautiful faces and their twit twoo call so owl never be able to fully undertand owl you are feeling. One roosts nearby and when I hear it, I'm owllfully happy but when owl is said and done, it's owl good for us to have likes and dislikes and owlthough I'm not a doctor, it sounds like you may have...
Irritable Owl Syndrome! 😊

That's owl folks! 🦉

HelenaWaiting · 02/04/2025 03:57

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?

Don't let them ruffle your feathers. Try mindf-owl-ness and relaxation.

curious79 · 02/04/2025 04:07

You can’t get it to go without doing something illegal like disturbing its nest

don’t worry - they’ll soon all disappear anyway with the cutting down and removal of every bit of green space in this country

NOTANUM · 02/04/2025 04:12

We have an owl or two which is amazing given we live in a city. If the window is shut, I can only barely hear them. Do you sleep with your window open?

RobintheNun · 02/04/2025 04:23

Absolute bastards. There’s one in a tree somewhere very close and it never stops with the twitting and twooing. It sounds a bit haunted. I sometimes wonder what kind it is so I can think more specifically annoyed thoughts about it.

BonnieBug · 02/04/2025 04:42

Owl be honest here, I love owls and the lovely hoots they make, but then I also love the sound of birds singing and even pigeons cooing, I think it's a soothing sound.
Maybe you'll get used to it?
It's be owlright.

FancyNewt · 02/04/2025 04:42

I want an owl.now.

Summerhillsquare · 02/04/2025 05:47

Me too! A lovelorn owl at that.

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.

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?'.

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

malmi · 02/04/2025 08:25

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

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!’

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.

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...

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.

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. 🦉🦉

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

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.

ShriekingTrespasser · 02/04/2025 08:38

Send it my way! I’d love an owl

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.