Me and Hootie

[drwilly]

No not me hanging w Darius. went home for lunch yesterday and see something hanging in the soccer goal in backyard. assume it's a jacket or toy the kids left and the landscapers threw up there to get it off the ground. As I approach I see it's an animal an immediately think Sicilian message "Luka Brasi swims with the fishes." Turns out it is an owl completely hung up. no telling how long it had been there. I'm guessing the night before. so I proceed to cut it out but when he gets loose he sits there and doesn't fly off.

So I call the birds of prey place and the lady literally tell me to bring it to them in Awendaw. I ask her if I should just take the rest of the day off or what? She tells me I can't just leave it there bc a predator might get it. I say that would be karma wouldn't since he was trying to do the same thing to another animal. She didn't see the humor in it. So I agree to put it in a box w holes in it of course and bring it to my office so they can pick it up. She calls me back and says one of their employees lives a few miles away and will come get it.

One of the talons got me and it was sharp. Will update if I find out how the little guy is doing. will try to post video too if I can figure it out (It's not like I'm a dentist or anything)

sorry about the big pics as well. if someone wants to fix it, have at it.

[drwilly]

No not me hanging w Darius. went home for lunch yesterday and see something hanging in the soccer goal in backyard. assume it's a jacket or toy the kids left and the landscapers threw up there to get it off the ground. As I approach I see it's an animal an immediately think Sicilian message "Luka Brasi swims with the fishes." Turns out it is an owl completely hung up. no telling how long it had been there. I'm guessing the night before. so I proceed to cut it out but when he gets loose he sits there and doesn't fly off.

So I call the birds of prey place and the lady literally tell me to bring it to them in Awendaw. I ask her if I should just take the rest of the day off or what? She tells me I can't just leave it there bc a predator might get it. I say that would be karma wouldn't since he was trying to do the same thing to another animal. She didn't see the humor in it. So I agree to put it in a box w holes in it of course and bring it to my office so they can pick it up. She calls me back and says one of their employees lives a few miles away and will come get it.

One of the talons got me and it was sharp. Will update if I find out how the little guy is doing. will try to post video too if I can figure it out (It's not like I'm a dentist or anything)

sorry about the big pics as well. if someone wants to fix it, have at it.
"Check your premise." Dr. Hugh Akston

[Duck cutter]

That’s pretty cool

[Duck Nitz]

Soccer endangers wildlife..film at 11.

[Rabbitman09]

You cut up your kids soccer net for that rabbit eating bastard?????

[Huntinjunkie]

I have a friend that volunteers for the raptor center. They're always transporting wounded owls and hawks. Occasionally I get one released on my property. Sure has thinned out the squirrels in the corn pile.

[swampknob]

I had to do my community service at the Birds of Prey center. Some cool peeps.

[joshua2]

That's one pissed off animal in that pic.

[2thDoc]

i caught one on topwater with gene fucking simmons one night. like late night. fucker got every damn treble hook in him. our drunk asses thought we needed to go wake Tilly up, so we did. he told us to go the hell away. so, we did.

and proceeded to somehow get that hooks out without hurting ourselves or the owl....

and another time, DOOK and I found a bald eagle and took it to the raptor center and it died.
I miss mergie's stories.

the end

[2thDoc]

oh and soccer rocks!

[drwilly]

You cut up your kids soccer net for that rabbit eating bastard?????

kinda how I was feeling as I was doing it

[Palmetto Bug]

That's a Barred Owl I think. I had one fly into my windshield years ago on Dorchester Road. My drunk buddy in the passenger seat thought I had hit a pedestrian. I did a U-turn, pulled into the median and as I was approaching, a car centered him. To my surprise, the owl ducked and was no worse. I threw a towel over him and carried him home for the night. I had a cool picture of him sitting on my arm with his wings extended. He spent the night in my house sitting on a deer mount. I took him back to where I found him the next day and he flew off and lit in a tree.

[Timsmith]

I thought this was Hootie the all time greatest singer SC never had.

[Drylok]

Always something happening on this site…

[ecu1984]

owls are cool as hell. I was sitting in a climber a few years back and one landed on a limb right beside me.
Scary stuff up close, either he had poor eye sight or I am one stealth cat in a climber

[thunderchicken]

Great Horned

[Palmetto Bug]

Great Horned

You're right. Barred Owls don't have the tufts. He's not a very big Great Horned Owl though. Those suckers get huge!

And Darius Rucker is indeed one of the best singers to come out of SC. His voice sounds like velvet.

[fro]

Would make a cool as mount!!

[WoodieSC]

My wife used to rehab raptors, and we had quite a number of various owls, hawks, herons, etc, around during those years.

As for their talons, you're lucky he didn't really get you good. We've got a couple pair of kevlar gloves that come half-way up the forearm just for handling owls and hawks.

[Bigtimber2]

I miss quail.