Owls

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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?

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

You Are Being Unreasonab-owl

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!!!

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

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".

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

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

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.

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.

Hate their screeching as bad as the bloody foxes

Owls are like peacocks bad luck if an owl low flys full wing span past you its bad luck.

Fun fact. If you're hearing a twit then a twoo, you've actually got female and male owls calling to each other. The female says t-wit, then the male answers with t-woo.

We have Tawny owls next door but one, we love hearing them. We hardly hear them with the windows closed, mystified that you’re so annoyed by them, unless your windows are open 24/7 🤷‍♀️

I’d far sooner hear the local owl than be subjected to the sounds of foxes shagging (as I am on many evenings).

I really love owls.

You are being unreasonable 👀

If you think owls are bad, try listening to muntjac deer barking away all night.

Barn owl babies just hiss like angry kittens. It's a frighteningly human sound until you know what it is!

Me too! They're my favourite until I remember another bird I love...

I always think It’s like a husband and wife bickering. She’s hollering twit at him

@FatherFrosty - we used to have a local pair and Mrs would get absolutely furious if Mr didn't answer promptly. You'd hear increasingly loud T-WHIT and eventually a rather shamefaced t-woooooo.

Love to hear owls. Hate to hear the machine-gun ratatat of magpies though, noisy feckers.

Around these 'ere parts the sound of "owls" is the signal that the local lowlife types are casing an area with the intention of breaking into properties and are communicating with out the need to speak.
It's the wood pigeons that annoy me with their woo-woooo-woo when I'm trying to have a lie in.

I owly wish I had owls! I stayed in York a couple of years ago and didn't sleep owl night because of a very vocal resident in a nearby tree.

Here, I have bats. Not noisy themselves but I sit outside at dusk and watch them swooping around. I'm the noisy part because I squeal with delight when I see them. Dog sighs and wanders back indoors!