I keep hearing an owl in the day

I love to see red kites, none around here sadly, seen loads near Reading when driving along.

We have a daily visit from a bad heron, I think he's eaten all the fish and is now catching newts. He stands there motionless for ages imitating a stand pipe, then suddenly lunges and gets one.

travelsafar pterodactyls?

I recently became a little bit obsessed with these fellas after hearing about them on Radio 4’s ‘Tweet of the Day’.
It’s a Ugandan Spoonbill Stork

Not sure if it has been mentioned but does anyone remember the book
“I heard the owl call my name”by Margaret Craven? One of those books that stays with you.

JaneJudge

I'm sure it must be sitting on my chimney but every time I go out the chimney pots are clear. Is it normal for them to be out this time of day?

Remember tale of guy in Devon who heard female owl one evening so decided to respond to her to see if she would? Success! Every evening he communed with this lady owl..... In pub he overheard neighbour telling tale of male owl he was communing with every evening....yep! It was /they were/ Hil-ar-i-ous!!!!!!?

I hadn’t heard that story Gabrielle

Here in east Devon I often here an owl in the day time, usually mid-afternoon. Once in Spain I saw an owl sitting on a wall being shrieked at by a magpie. It looked very sleepy. I chased the magpie away but no doubt it returned as soon as I was out of sight.

Gabrielle56

JaneJudge

I'm sure it must be sitting on my chimney but every time I go out the chimney pots are clear. Is it normal for them to be out this time of day?

Remember tale of guy in Devon who heard female owl one evening so decided to respond to her to see if she would? Success! Every evening he communed with this lady owl..... In pub he overheard neighbour telling tale of male owl he was communing with every evening....yep! It was /they were/ Hil-ar-i-ous!!!!!!?

That is so funny

and Monica your French owls sound sweet
to have some at
Fanny have you ever seen a stork? They are absolutely massive! We watched them is a birds of prey show and they run around like nobodies business

We've got wood pigeons here, noisy little things never shut up!
Also foxes, they've tunnelled into our back yard. Gorgeous.
Ordinary pigeons and seabirds (we're just a few yards from the beach) and they've roosted and STINK - thank heavens someone has bought that old building and us renovating it now, even gone in with masks and hazmat suits because of all the bird poop in there!!!
I love owls, but only really see them when visiting relatives in Stowmarket, up on the edge of town!

Again, most likely a wood pigeon?

It's a not very good spy signalling to his cronies.

(Not very good because of picking a night bird in daytime)

Jane apparently Ugandan spoonbills are so ungainly and clumsy, they just sort of fall on top of their prey!
They even eat baby crocodiles ?

I’ve got a photo of DH meeting a Chinese crested stork. DH isn’t a tall man, so the bird was as tall as him. They were eyeball to eyeball. He didn’t look too confident (DH).

Fanny

Could be, have seen barn owls hunting in the day where l live.

It is quite normal to hear owls in the day. If you go into Google it will tell you the owls that are active in daytime.

A small russet coloured owl (Tawny maybe?) landed on our greenhouse roof last Thursday, just after lunch. It stayed for several minutes just looking around. I crept indoors to get the camera but it was gone by the time I got back. Lovely to see it so close though. We've got night vision cameras in the garden but we stopped using them because the batteries don't last long, but they used to reveal barn owls, badgers, foxes, hares and even small deer visiting the garden at night. Perhaps I'll get some fresh batteries.

Young owls may well be heard and seen in daytime, especially at this time of the year.

Glad you have the sweep coming in. It could well be a young bird that has fallen down the chimney and can't get back out.

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How lovely! Owls are such beautiful birds.
Off on a bit of a tangent, but just as it was getting light one day last week, I could hear something ‘croaking’ outside and came to the conclusion it must be a toad. I heard it again later in the week, this time when I was in the garden during the day. This time, the croaking noise, eventually morphed into a sort of quack. I followed the source of the noise and realised that it was coming from a crow on a nearby chimney top. I’ve never heard a crow make a noise like this before and assume that the poor thing has got some sort of voice problem. However will it attract a mate?!

Owls definitely shouldn't be heard during the day. I only hear the owls beside me after it is pitch dark. But the wood pigeons start cooing from dawn. I would get chimney checked. I got an awful shock yesterday when I realised a tiny sparrow was fluttering about inside my log burner (thankfully not lit). Poor wee thing. I got a thick towel and opened the bifold kitchen exterior doors, then gradually opened the log burner door slightly, gently grabbed the wee soul in the towel and off it flew out the doors. I was so relieved it wasn't hurt.

hollysteers

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it's ok, I didn't think I was going to meet an imminent death you didn't need to withdraw it!

at crow secondwind...maybe it was young? I don't know much about corvids

My chimney is being swept tomorrow susysue

We have wood pigeons in our garden, they do sound like owls

I would say wood pigeon

@JaneJudge:

I never thought of that!