That owl says "WHOOP WHOOP!"
― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://de.acidcow.com/pics/20091007/owl_05.jpg
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
That story is awesome though as is this pic:
http://www.nabirding.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Rick-107.jpg
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
winking owl!
so many creatures out there in this world are so utterly ludicrous, <3 them all
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
That nabirding link isn't working for me at all!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
OMG
http://www.nabirding.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SO-11.jpg
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
OWLS! I FEEL GOOD!
― owenf, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
I like the way this thread is going.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
that is a pretty awesome dream, ENBB! owls in dreams are good imo even if they seem scary at the time/when you wake up.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Had one of these dudes (a boobook owl) in our yard last night, making its cry that gives it its name (boo-book!), made our dog crazy
http://www.flashman.com.au/images/coaster_1/boobook_owl5.jpg
Not my photo, sadly
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SLfeTYU09_E
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
I had this insane and really frightening dream a couple weeks ago where, during a blizzard, a snowy owl was hovering outside my window just floating in the same spot and staring at me with red eyes. I kept trying to run away and hide from it but it wouldn't leave
http://api.ning.com/files/I*ofqcyvyKbTJ62PITE63Ibl0PhSnUhKjNIBawqMy0wRHG7lFEogR8RCOhOdDMX0*LSh*NDX4CDIEL6dQ0-SlByrIZpNhHDM/communion.jpg
― the late great, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
maybe my favorite YouTube ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rp-CaIKvQs
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 07:16 (twelve years ago) link
that is the greatest!!!!
the way it turns into skinny wet cat vampire owl is AWESOME
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa that owl!!! (Starts at ~ 1:41)
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
first rate owl work here guys
― DG, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently the most popular thing to get tattooed on necks.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgwdbfoT11qitqtto1_500.png
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
now that's just silly, imagine waking up next to that.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
"that" = the facial hair?
― one little aioli (Laurel), Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:07 (twelve years ago) link
imagine waking up next to that
No prodding needed.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
Especially if you're a mouse.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 16 February 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
Late great - not too far off! It was one stare-y and spooky dream owl. Also, enormous.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37MNE8tOBG4
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://gunshowcomic.com/comics/20120302-kramerisanowl.png
― pplains, Friday, 16 March 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bFmwp-p1Sc
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
this video makes me happy
― an inevitable disappointment (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
an owl flew into my dad's windshield once driving home. when he walked over to it where it had fallen. it got up and started walking around and clucking. i think it was stunned because it started following him back to the car. he decided not to bring it home.
― the late great, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
peabody bath champion!
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
a local avian rescue place posted this picture with an owl they found in the ditch next to a busy road. get well soon, little guy!https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/313711_10151380705703510_1623138047_n.jpg
― pareidolia, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6XP8exJ.gif
― δΉδΉ, Friday, 21 June 2013 12:02 (ten years ago) link
the owls are not what they seem
― mh, Friday, 19 July 2013 02:02 (ten years ago) link
<3
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Friday, 19 July 2013 12:39 (ten years ago) link
PPlains bought me the entire series of Twin Peaks. Hes never seen it and now when I think about Bob Im too scared to watch it again.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Friday, 19 July 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BXOmdixCMAEPJka.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 03:29 (ten years ago) link
MY GOD LOOK AT THEM
― mh, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 03:30 (ten years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/61931ab3a27cde4a05612198c3f91448/tumblr_n7hco1OnrU1qb6v6ro1_250.gifhttp://37.media.tumblr.com/18ab7ad51ba24c81c612a25ca0365831/tumblr_n7hco1OnrU1qb6v6ro2_250.gifhttp://38.media.tumblr.com/ccff25615ed69f800981660186b0068d/tumblr_n7hco1OnrU1qb6v6ro3_250.gifhttp://31.media.tumblr.com/98d30b64183fd3ba6dbcf1dd7a1507af/tumblr_n7hco1OnrU1qb6v6ro4_250.gif
― carl agatha, Monday, 21 July 2014 12:33 (nine years ago) link
http://i57.tinypic.com/2ep7jvb.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJ7WWWVCcAAnHnH.jpg:large
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Owls can exhibit a remarkable head stability during angular movement of the body about any axis passing through the skull. K.E. Money 1962. See THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM OF THE OWLAuthor(s): Money, K.E.; Correia, M.J. Abstract: Owls have a curious variability in the postrotatory head nystagmus following abrupt angular deceleration. Owls can exhibit a remarkable head stability during angular movement of the body about any axis passing through the skull. The vestibular apparatus in the owl is bigger than in man, and a prominent crista neglecta is present. The tectorial membrane, the cupula, and the otolithic membranes of the utricle, saccule and lagena are all "attached" to surfaces in addition to the surfaces bearing hair cells; these attachments are very substantial in the utricular otolithic membrane and in the cupola.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6M-h5g3PwI
― Plasmon, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 05:48 (nine years ago) link
That owl looks pissed off.
All owls look kind of pissed off though.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
just saw an avian, a strigiform no less, with acephaly issues
β Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, April 16, 2014 6:20 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^posts that haunt your thoughts
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:47 (nine years ago) link
owl burrito
― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
http://www.audubon.org/magazine/january-february-2015/whos-who
Look at those fucking owls. Look at them!
― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
β mh, Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:30 PM (1 year ago)
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
I love looking at those owls.
― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
"carl agatha" would make a good name for a olw
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
or a owl
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
carl owlgatha
― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
stolenowl
http://i60.tinypic.com/2zs32wk.jpg
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 2 February 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
http://animal-diversity.tumblr.com/post/59900883148/x
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 2 February 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
Owls, through no fault of their own, seem to have become the latest decorative motif, following the path taken in earlier years by such disparate organisms as amanita mushrooms, geese, and Guernsey cows. Churning out owl-adorned and owl-shaped merchandise now accounts for nearly 1% of the Chinese export economy.
― Aimless, Monday, 2 February 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b01bb08269c8f970d-800wi
http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2015/04/sooty-owl-chick-training-for-bird-show.html
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Monday, 4 May 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
xpost owls have been ruling the brooklyn decorative scene for at least 3 years, they were neck and neck with squid for awhile but are now undisputed
I did a long lost bag of laundry yesterday which revealed an owl tote, took it to work today instead of my satchel. I'm as vulnerable as anyone
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Monday, 4 May 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6wGSx4RMLU
― del griffith, Saturday, 1 August 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
I got to poke an owl in the head last week. Owl heads are teeny tiny, it's just that they have loads of feathers. But if you poke through the feathers at the back of an owl's neck, there's quite a long way to go, relatively speaking, before you get to actual owl skull.
Owls are great and I felt a bit icky poking about the back of his neck. But it was positively encouraged and the owl didn't seem to mind.
― ailsa, Saturday, 1 August 2015 23:42 (eight years ago) link
Without their feathers they seem to be vulture-shaped
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link
what an insouciant little chap
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Sunday, 6 September 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/oxkQdK0.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 16 October 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
That took me a looooong time to get
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 16 October 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
does it have to do with the wheels
― the late great, Monday, 16 October 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
yes
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
I get it!
― the late great, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
π€π€ pic.twitter.com/zEcRWp6GdK— Gaml .y (@m_yosry2012) May 12, 2018
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 14 May 2018 11:31 (six years ago) link
Amazing
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 May 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
We saw what we think was a southern Boobook on the he way to the station tonight, sitting on a power line.
http://d3lp4xedbqa8a5.cloudfront.net/s3/digital-cougar-assets/AusGeo/2017/06/29/65390/Southern-Boobook.jpg
Image not mine from Australian Geographic
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 19 May 2018 08:58 (six years ago) link
There's a Barred Owl sitting on a dead fir branch in my backyard. It's been there all afternoon, even when I was puttering back there within 25 feet of it. Other birds have been coming by and yelling at it, especially this one Steller's Jay, but it seems imperturbable.
Tonight at dusk there will be a massive fireworks show about a mile from our house. Each year it sounds like a battery of howitzers going off for more than 20 minutes. I don't expect it will stick around much for the show. I hope it likes its nice dead branch and comes back some more, through the summer. It's a better mouser than a cat!
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 5 July 2018 03:29 (five years ago) link
oh nice! get any photos?
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Thursday, 5 July 2018 05:48 (five years ago) link
My wife did.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 5 July 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/b27u6n0.png
― pplains, Sunday, 2 December 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
I, for one, welcome our owl overlords pic.twitter.com/p5Cw17czDr— Daniel Rourke π (@therourke) December 1, 2018
― Dan S, Sunday, 2 December 2018 01:23 (five years ago) link
oh shithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ik29zMbHaY
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 04:38 (four years ago) link
i love that very much
― estela, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 07:10 (four years ago) link
I've never seen a happier man!
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 12:35 (four years ago) link
I was hiking up in the San Gabriels yesterday and on the way down I spotted a funny looking rock in the middle of the trail that I didn't recall seeing on the way up. I was just about to poke at it when it instantly pointed an eye at me, spread wings, and flew off.
Meet the flammulated owl!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25uGhYOz04g
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 6 November 2023 01:47 (seven months ago) link