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@movq Very cool! Amazing animal!
@movq Fuck me, this is brilliant! <3 What a truly amazing shot! Really awesome, mate! :-) Yeah, they are giant. Haven't seen one in person from up close, only a hand full in the very, very distance.
I can hear tawny owls every now and then, at least I was told that this is the specific hooting of them. Only half a year ago I actually got to see one of them for the first time taking off a tree.
That reminds me of a funny story last month: I was working with doors and windows open in the morning and I thought several times, I received an incoming call. But I couldn't see anything of that sort. The headset was laying on the desk and it was ringing very quietly. Took me a few seconds to realize that this was the call of an owl. :-D I hadn't realized before that the ringtone must have been modelled after an owl call. :-)
@lyse A ringtone that sounds like an owl? Which one is that? 😅
@lyse A ringtone that sounds like an owl? Which one is that? 😅
@lyse A ringtone that sounds like an owl? Which one is that? 😅
@lyse You must show us what that sounds like 🤔
@lyse You must show us what that sounds like 🤔
@lyse You must show us what that sounds like 🤔
@movq @prologic It's the Teams ringtone. But now that I listen to it again, it doesn't remotely sound similar anymore. Hmm. :-( Maybe just a few frequencies made it. Okay, it took me over an hour to figure out that what I heard is not some kind of owl but rather a Eurasian collared dove! What a surprise. Didn't expect that, not in a hundred years. Would have lost any bet.
@lyse Ohh, indeed! That does sound similar. 😅
Collared doves are quite rare around here. I think I only saw them once. 🤔
Thinking about it: I guess the big difference between the calls of owls and doves/pigeons is that owls don’t repeat their call that much. It’s more like a “huuuu!” and then silence for quite a while – whereas doves often sound like a broken record. 😂
@lyse Ohh, indeed! That does sound similar. 😅
Collared doves are quite rare around here. I think I only saw them once. 🤔
Thinking about it: I guess the big difference between the calls of owls and doves/pigeons is that owls don’t repeat their call that much. It’s more like a “huuuu!” and then silence for quite a while – whereas doves often sound like a broken record. 😂
@lyse Ohh, indeed! That does sound similar. 😅
Collared doves are quite rare around here. I think I only saw them once. 🤔
Thinking about it: I guess the big difference between the calls of owls and doves/pigeons is that owls don’t repeat their call that much. It’s more like a “huuuu!” and then silence for quite a while – whereas doves often sound like a broken record. 😂
@movq We have some common wood pidgeons around here in the neighborhood. The collared ones I apparently only heard in the distance so far. ;-) But also in the forest, I'm pretty sure.
Yeah, listening to all these owl calls on YouTube I was surprised that they were so short. All those years I thought hoots are much, much longer. Learning something new very day. :-)