I keep hearing an owl in the day

JaneJudge

You haven't told me about your parents owls
it's a woo

Sorry, it’s male. Oh, the shame

owls in a box by the roadside?

JaneJudge

Wood pigeons sing song though don't they? I always think they say 'how dare you boogaloo'

It sounds like a tawny owl

The ones round here just do a coo-coo on the same note, when they are getting romantic it seems to be endless.
They sit on the chimney pot and coo sometimes.

I hear an owl at night and it is different.

www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-songs/what-bird-is-that/

Go on Fanny, I have heard the story of your parent’s owls but I could happily hear it again.

www.british-birdsongs.uk/short-eared-owl/

I think Grandmabatty is correct.
A friend of mine was convinced an owl was on her shed roof......nope,it was a wood pidgeon.

I know you think I am a bit daft Callistemon but it is not a pigeon they are it all bloody day long in my garden, so much so I've written a pigeon dictionary

More please Fanny!

There are different types of owls, they dont all call twit to woo, some just screech. Barn owls, tawny owls, little owls all sound different. Some will hunt in daylight during summer. Or is there an Owl sanctuary within a few miles of where you live. I once had an owl fly just in front of my windscreen when driving home in day light, it really gave me a fright, its white face zoomed past me.

I live quite rural to be honest Lillian and by lots of farmland and woods

JaneJudge

I know you think I am a bit daft Callistemon but it is not a pigeon they are it all bloody day long in my garden, so much so I've written a pigeon dictionary

Apologies, I don't think you're daft ?
?

Ours may sound different because they coo in Welsh but I think they may fly over the border sometimes- eve when we were supposedly in lockdown

Callistemon

www.british-birdsongs.uk/short-eared-owl/

The short-eared owl may hoot during the day, it sounds a bit like a pigeon

This time of the year. when they have a brood to feed, they will be out hunting in day light.

We have twice had owls trapped in the redundant kitchen flue in our house in France, where we are at present. The first time DH disconnected the cookerhood, it flew out and headed straight for the open back door into the dark. The second time we had to unscrew a ventilator at floor level and the owl did several laps of honour, almost sweeping china off the dresser before exiting. We got our chimney man in and he has now blocked the flue off at the top.

On the Sefton coast we see little owls and the occasional barn owl during the day though I’ve not heard them call. At night we hear lots of tawny owls.

Germanshepherdsmum

More please Fanny!

Excellent! Thank you

Chapter 2:

So mom and dad returned from Wales, bringing the owlets home.
The plan was for them to go to Dudley Zoo. (They could never be wild, because they’d never been taught to hunt.)
Mom and Dad met with the keeper at Dudley Zoo to discuss provision for the owls.
Sadly, the situation at the zoo was found wanting. Mom and Dad knew that they could give the owls a better life.
So, with permission from the local ‘Birds of Prey Top Banana’ (this chap plays a significant role, but I can’t remember what his role actually was) mom and dad were to keep the owls…

oh do please tell me more

Chapter 3.

So the owlets came to live in a semi detached house in 1970s Dudley (I do realise how Harry Potter this sounds)
I wasn’t born yet, so the owlets temporarily lived in the room that was to become my nursery.
The curtains and carpet were removed, and two large dead branches were installed instead.
The window of their bedroom faced onto the street, so people must have been intrigued to see the owls hopping about.

brilliant

A handy hint (from my gas man) for anyone about to release a bird trapped behind a fireguard or gas fire indoors. Start by closing internal doors and curtains, leaving one window/patio door open. When it's freed the bird will make a beeline for the bright exit route. (Not sure about when it's dark outside. Lights off indoors and stand outside with a torch maybe?)

I had no idea the male owl call was different from the female one, and I thought I was a country girl! So when I’ve heard woo woo it could be the male wooing the female (wonder if that’s where the word comes from?). Hearing it during the day I wondered what he was hunting. NowI know but didn’t hear a female reply back. Poor lonely owl calling all day long. Not heard him lately now mating season is past.

It's probably a Little Owl. They often hunt and call during the day.

That’s wonderful Fanny. I have a feeling there may be more (she said hopefully)?

FannyC you’re a hoot.

Surrounded by owls here in the many trees, usually they start off about twilight time.The males calling and females answering more softly.Barn owls must screech though, so the
Twit.....twoo owls are tawny owls usually.
Autumn is the time they go mad calling out, as they are having territory wars.

It's an owl with insomnia. Lots of owls around here and occasionally heard in the daytime.