wafflycat
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- middle of Norfolk
As I sit at my computer, I hear the sound of a tawny owl hooting in the trees just outside my window. Quite magical 
What a hoot
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Kirstie
Über Member
rusky said:
Snap. In between their 2 month old baby screaming and them hoovering. They tend to save the latter for the hours of 10pm - 12am. The baby screams for most of the day and evening.
Globalti
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Three nights ago I was trying to sleep in a rondavel in Botswana and at 2:30 in the morning two baboons and a troupe of monkeys decided to have a party on the veranda. A baboon barking is not a comforting sound to an Englishman, I can tell you, especially when the lock is so flimsy.
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
Globalti said:
They only wanted your windscreen wipers
Trumpettom001
Well-Known Member
Ditto, not that I have my window open in the winter, but if I do so, I can hear:
- 4 mencaing dogs,
- 3 screaming children
- 2 screamng parent
- 1 moped being "Chooned"
And loud music coming from the other side, punctuated by the ting of tin cans being shot with air rifles.....
Having said that, the guys on the right are wonderful, they only play loud music in the summer afternoon, when it's sunny, and they always go for reggae!!
- 4 mencaing dogs,
- 3 screaming children
- 2 screamng parent
- 1 moped being "Chooned"
And loud music coming from the other side, punctuated by the ting of tin cans being shot with air rifles.....
Having said that, the guys on the right are wonderful, they only play loud music in the summer afternoon, when it's sunny, and they always go for reggae!!
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
I can hear the telephone ringing.....................
................blast - missed it again
................blast - missed it again
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- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Speicher has a torn knee cat that 'owled in a similar fashion yesterday...
XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
Often I hear the fox barking at night, but no owl ...
Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
OwlS
One does the terwit
a second does the terwoo in reply
One does the terwit
a second does the terwoo in reply
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Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Over The Hill said:
If one is taken away is it a terminus?
Or just the end.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
I can hear traffic out front, and the occasional 'whoop whoop whoop' of swans getting in some night-flying practice on the river out back.
Headgardener
Armchair Cyclist
Over the Hill is right the terwit is a randy male looking for a bit of tawny owl action and the terwhoo is the female sayin' "I'm over 'ere chuck".
Cubist
Still wavin'
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- Ovver 'thill
Speicher is stalking you!!!!wafflycat said:As I sit at my computer, I hear the sound of a tawny owl hooting in the trees just outside my window. Quite magical
If you can learn to imitate with a low whistled "towhoo" they'll have a conversaton with you. The hooting is a territorial call, so if you can imitate another male in the territory you will start an argument. If you keep it up you may even get divebombed. They really can get quite cross! There was a pair of tawnies in a tree behind one rural station I was posted to. I used to stand on the back step during the occasional smokebreak and "chat" to them. My team thought I was bonkers until one night the male dropped onto some railings ten feet from us, setting off the security light, so he was backlit in all his glory. Wonderful sight.
