I keep hearing an owl in the day

Where we used to live our garden ran into a belt of woodland and there was a pair of owls living there. They got used to us pottering around and it was one of those wonderful moments when I went out to get wood early one evening to find their three babies had just fledged and were in the trees all around me. They made the most weird noises as they chatted and blundered around. Sadly Mrs Tawny was killed on the road and it was so sad to hear Mr Tawny calling for her night after night. This was twenty or so years ago. Our DS now lives nearby and listens to owls in the woods. I wonder if they're the same family.

FannyCornforth

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

It's a Shoebill Stork Fanny. We were lucky enough to see them when we went to Uganda on a safari holiday just before lockdown. How lucky we were! They are fantastic birds. Huge! They plodge v e r y s l o w l y around in the swamp in very high grass stuff and stand v e r y s t i l l for a long time. Apparently they can move very fast when a fish swims by!

Maybe it's a teat owl

v funny

FannyCornforth

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

Looks like a dodo and I thought they were extinct! Reckon that’s what they were,really.

It is very likely a Little Owl. They hunt during the day unlike the larger owls .

NfkDumpling you’re right, yes of course it is, I don’t know why I got mixed up.
I did wonder why when I googled ‘spoonbill’, it didn’t look like what I was after ie ‘shoebill’

Ok so I've been hearing it again, very early in the morning etc
but I've now realised what it is
My next door neighbours have a rodent light? that comes on at the front of their house and it makes an owl sound!!! so although we have actual owls, I think what I have been hearing for months its a bloodyy fake owl, rodent deterrent!

Last summer I watched a young sparrow dithering around on the gutter of the house next door, obviously scared to try to fly.

There is about three feet's distance from that gutter to the flat roof of our front porch, which is directly under the window of this room.

Finally a cock sparrow, presumably the youngster's daddy landed in the gutter, flew across here, flew back, chirped as if to say, "Now you try!" Scared baby bird still dithered, until Daddy shoved her off the gutter, when she flew happily and landed safely on my window ledge, then flew back to daddy practically crowing in triumph.

Tawny owl keeping me awake the past few nights - it’s either on the chimney or the telegraph pole beside my fence. I’m exhausted after a weekend of 4yr old DGS1, so I’m hoping the owl finds somewhere else tonight.