To tell you I can hear an owl hooting and it's weirdly thrilling?

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Just that really. I'm in a relatively urban area but not commercial, and there's a fair amount of greenery, and it's the first time in the 18 months I've lived here that I've heard an owl hooting.

For some reason it's really pleased me, even though last night would have been perfect being Halloween and all.

Just felt like sharing 😚

Love owls. We sometimes hear them during the day too.

We are very rural so are pretty spoilt for wildlife.

We have Mr & Mrs Tawny Owl living in the trees behind us and I love standing in the garden listening to them. Also have a fox visitor who poops all over the drive every night, don't love that so much...
My favourite is the green woodpecker, who sometimes knocks on the window to say hi. He makes me laugh when he hops across the garden and I love the cackle he makes too!

I love hearing owls, I live in a village with lots of trees around so I hear them a lot, but I love trying to work out what type of owl is making which noise.
Also love sitting by the window at dusk in summer watching the bats

Thete's a great horned owl that will come and talk to me. He's a gossip, he'll go on for an hour or two.

Yes magical is the word and also slightly eerie! My house backs onto trees and fields and we have two owls who call to each other, it makes me feel really fortunate to live so close to them and adds to the atmosphere when I’m watching something spooky!

I love hearing and owl hooting

Sadly we don't get owls here, I'd love it if we did. We do have a young fox, a couple of hedgehogs and slow worms, I'm going to miss the hedgehog when they hibernate

We hear a tawny owl outside every night from our bedroom window. I miss it when we’re not home.

We also hear muntjacs barking, sometimes they’re in the garden.

I remember being allowed to hold a massive owl in a shopping centre up north and being absolutely thrilled to bits.

We have owls (semi rural) and I will never tire of hearing them at night. I run and walk early too and often see them out hunting in the morning when it’s just getting light. Just lovely.

Yes l have also been out cycling through fields and have seen a barn owl silently flying towards me, and l often hear owls hooting up in the trees. I love all the wildlife, especially the hares and foxes.

It's wonderful to hear owls hooting, seems a little magical to me. I live in the suburbs with a good bit of greenery around where I live. I sometimes hear owls and earlier this year I was lucky enough to see one fly near me and land on a fence. I was so excited!
I also see a lot of bats when I walk my dog at dusk, I absolutely love watching them flit around above my head.

There's a tawny owl that I hear most nights and have done for a few years. I think he's only part-time though, as I hear him (or her) around 11-11.30 and again around 5-5.30 am, if I'm awake. I never hear him if I'm awake at any other time (which I often am - I have dreadful insomnia). I love hearing it.

I don't see many foxes though, far fewer than when I lived in Croydon, where I saw at least one most nights. I live on the edge of open countryside, and suspect that rural foxes may be a bit more shy than urban ones.

My top wildlife sighting was a stag. I was driving along a minor road in West Sussex when it was almost, but not quite, dark and saw something large in the road ahead. I slowed down, initially thinking it might be an escaped horse, but as I got closer it became clear that it had a great pair of fuck-off antlers. It didn't budge, so I stopped a few feet away there were a few moments where we just looked at each other, then he sauntered off into the woods. It was absolutely breathtaking.

At this time of year I am regularly woken in the middle of the night by owls in the trees opposite my bedroom window. I wake in a panic from dreams of hauntings and ghosts to lie sweating in the dark and hearing 'wooooo!' 'wooo-ooooo!;

And then I have to get up and close the window, first shouting 'shut up, you hooty bastards!' at them.

I do love hearing them. Just not at three in the morning, thank you so very much.

Love it. We’re semi rural and have one in the trees above our house.

Not a great photo, but managed to snap this one opposite my house a while ago. Although I often hear owls at night, it was the first time I’ve actually seen one.

Had 10 swans fly overhead the other day, that was a pretty magical site to see 🦢

I hear curlews most mornings.

We hear them a lot as we back into fields I love it too.
I got so excited in the summer to hear a woodpecker and looked out side and could see a pair of them and one pecking away on the tree. I watched them for ages!

I used to live in a tiny village and l'd hear the owls hooting at night.
One on one side, then another responding from across the valley.
I was thrilled, l'm a townie and l'd never heard it before.
Just grateful my tiny house rabbit didn't realise what it was.....

I used to live backing on to some rather nice woods. The owls would have full on conversations through the bloody night, I opened the window one night and told them to shut the fuck up.

I now live somewhere further from woods and fields (not much, but enough) and do get terribly excited to hear critters. I was full of joy at the sparrow hawk that visited the garden, the pheasant that walked past, the fox I heard, I went outside and hunted for the hedgehog 🦔

Love me some wildlife, but apparently not too much wildlife.

The first time I heard kookaburras in Oz I was grinning from ear to ear!

I was watching Country file tonight and they had a segment in Tawny Owls. Did a stakeout in a wood in suburban Surrey and spotted a couple.

I hear one occasionally (also in a relatively urban area) and I saw one across my garden once. I never tire of hearing owls - even though I grew up hearing them most nights throughout my childhood, I still find it exciting every single time.

This has reminded me of my trip to Oz a few decades ago.

Was staying with friends, early evening, and I was outside in the garden. A parrot-type bird flew into the garden and I went inside saying along the lines of “do any of your neighbours have a parrot, have just seen one land over there”. They laughed as they said they’re just normal birds around here. I felt like a right muppet!

Yes I love it too. I was told that the twit twoo sound is 2 different owls calling to each other.