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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody after the show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We are hearing from so many of you about the
owls that I listen to, and they find me, and
I find them at night on my sunset walks. I
record them when I have a chance, you know, with
my device.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And adventually you catch a hawk in there too.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Or so we think. Anyway, So look, we are hearing
from so many of you. This is so good for
my country girl's heart to talk about this, because you know,
a lot of people walk to get their steps in,
get their calories burned or whatever. I walk. All those
things happen, calories are burned, rock and roll is sometimes
played or whatever. Podcast. But I also am there for
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the nature encounters, and if you are looking for them,
you will find them, especially at sunset and lately especially
a lot of owls. It's spring, Okay, there's a lot
of mating and stuff going on, so there's a lot
of action. Okay, So let's get to some of these emails.
I'm excited about it.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I got an email here from Jamie.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Hi, Jamie, She says.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The recording of the barred owl that Jody shared also
featured another different sounding bird calling loudly along with it. Yes,
we heard ye. Jamie says, that was not a hawk, right,
oh really, she says, it's also a barred owl. Oh really, They,
as well as every other bird raptor, can make quite
varied calls, songs, sounds, especially during nesting and mating season.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well, and Jody was saying that she thought she saw
two barred owls at that moment. I did, and that
they were flying around together, so one was making a
different noise than the other.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, I love the way you guys my city boys
asserted that it was a hawk.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Well, it sounded I mean to me, that's that's that's
sound a different bird.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It did sound like a different bird. Jamie goes on
to say, males tend to sing and call a lot
during courtship and mating competition. Yeah, mating competition. Yeah. Now, also,
and she says, she adds here it's another quite creepy
call to look up in the case of owls.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Is the call of barn owls barn not the same
as barred.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Barn ba r n. These screeching sounds had a hand
in shaping legends like the screaming banshees and the forest
long ago, and I got you a barn owl sound.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, I've heard those. It is scary.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, these Louise.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Birds are whoa. It's crazy about me walking and I'm
never walking in the dark, but I'm winding down my
walks in the evenings right around sunset and no kidding oftentimes,
and we're just lucky where we live. There's a lot
of woods around us. In front of us and behind us,
they're owls and they just look they that's when they
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begin hunting, and that's when they begin all the mating
stuff that's going on. And I cannot tell you. On
the nights, I go out and I'm really looking for something.
Every once in a while, not much will happen. I'm disappointed.
So I'm like whatever, I got my steps in, feel good,
you know, good way to end the day. But I'm
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telling you, especially in the springtime, i almost always have
some sort of encounter. They'll they'll swoop down and fly
across the street in front of me. Lately I've seen
an owl and then two or three other little birds
around it. I'm like, am I in the middle of
a Winnie the Pooh movie? It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
They're not attacking the owl.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Are they No, they're all just hanging out together. They
look like a gang. It looks.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
One of my favorites is when when our oldest daughter Taylor,
was driving home one night and there was a barred
out on our mailbox.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh yeah, just perched there. You know. I definitely think
there was an owl on our mailbox or a hawk
this week because there was a dropping that didn't look
like a nice little delicate bird. Oh really, yeah, the
rain got it look like the mailman.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Anyway, I just have to say I know that I'm
a country girl, and so this is where I find myself.
I will always do this when I go for a walk.
Like I said, it's not always to get a number
of steps in or to burn calories. Of course that
is happening. But I really am Our world is so technical,
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our lives. What we're doing here right now a podcast
is a technical you know thing, and we're trapped in
that world. And I just need this. I seek it
out at the especially at the end of.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
The day therapeutic.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Last night I saw a family of raccoons. Again I
say that they're very they're practically domesticated because there's a
lady down the street who at sunset every day feeds them,
and so they're all gathered at the back of her
driveway and when they see me, they get really still,
and like the leader of them will stand up on
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his hind legs and look at me like you coming
for me? Keep on moving, come on, yeah, and they
get really still. So there's just always so much to see,
you know.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know, I know it's a little cliche to just
talk about how soothing nature is and all that, but
there's there's a truth in it because we don't control
any of that part of things. And you see other
bird species or whatever living their lives. And you and
I were at a hotel this past weekend, Jody, and
remember as we were walking back to the lobby, there
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were two hawks circling above. And they're not circling, just
a circle. There's something there. We just don't know what
it was. But we were watching them circle for I
don't know, a couple of minutes. But you know, as
we walked in and Jody said, yeah, I think when
I got it woke up this morning, I smelled something funny.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
When I was in the hall. I had gone down
to get us coffee and we were. We were our room.
I'm not making that up. In our room. We were
at the end of the hall and there was a
stair the stairwell was down there, and down the stairwell,
it was like, something's funky out there, and funky could
be whatever they're circling.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It could be I mean, do they do they circle
trash too or just animals?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't know the answered that.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Not a scientist, and I really haven't studied it enough
to know.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Literally, just a country girl that notices this stuff. Like
if all of us walk, we went on a walk together,
I promise you I would find the nature quick quickly
because I'm just always scanning for it.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I had, and it's going to sound lame compared to owls.
I had a hummingbird land on one of my bushes
this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't any red stuff or any hummingbird feeders or anything.
He just comes up and he sat there and it
was like, oh wow, that's unusual.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, it is unusual. I don't know enough about it.
They're unbelievable. They're a miracle because all these little miracles
happening around all the time. So thank you Jamie for
sending that barn owl info. I'm pretty sure we don't
have barn owls where we are. I know we do
have bard murphy, the same ones that I see all
the time that to take pictures of.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So a burn owl is also a screech owl. I've
heard him called screech owls.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Seems the fact that he was screeching, I would assume that, right, It.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Sounds like something an old farmer would call it a
screech owl.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, don't you hear it?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Screeching?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
He's in the barn.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I had an encounter with an owl the other night
that the same one, a barred owl, and on the
same branch, near the same place where I see them often.
And instead of flying away after you know, a few
minutes of me just standing there and shooting a little video,
he just stayed. It was kind of like, in my imagination,
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he knows me, he knows I'm not going to mess
with So I just walked away and let him hang there.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So cute. You know.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Jody's love for owls is one reason that we had
this original painting in one of our bathrooms that you
fell in love with. It's not a huge one, and we've.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Bought it for me. I just liked it at a
gallery one time, and he bought it for me from
the artist.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, yeah, from the artist who actually painted it. And
it's it's it's a really sweet painting of a mother
owl with two little baby owls in a nest and
they're all looking at each other. And we've had this
thing for a couple of years. And the other day, well,
so it's like it's right above the toilet, so you
I see it a lot, yeah, yeah, And uh, but
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I noticed something for the very first time in years.
And I walked up to Jody and I said, you know,
because I'm usually the one who misses things like this,
and I was waiting for Jody to go, yeah, how
did you miss that?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I said, did you have you ever noticed something that's
different in that painting? And and Jody didn't notice this either,
So we walked into the bathroom together and I showed her.
I said, that's a it's a rabbit in her talons.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Mama's got a rabbit. She's about to.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's it's one ear, just you know, poking up in
that And it's not graphic or anything like that. It's
enough to be a little creepy, but I know that's nature.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
It's real.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, it's a it's capturing a moment. But I never
saw that. I thought it was just you know, yeah,
mama al with two little babies.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
What's so funny about it is that the reason I
maybe noticed it when we bought it years ago, but
I'd forgotten about it, and I hung it in the
bathroom room.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm sitting there thinking, is that a bunny ear?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, it is a bunny air.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Which I distracted myself and realized, wait, let me finish
using the rest, then they'll investigate this further.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The other reason that I didn't notice it is because
I'm looking at the babies. I've never seen baby in
real life, so for them to be in that painting,
you know. I just have always loved owls.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Have you ever thought of maybe trying to feed those
owls outside? No?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I don't need to.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You know why they feed themselves?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
What would you do?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Because they only eat animals. Yeah, so look, I don't
know they're to try to feed an owl.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I don't even wear a bun in my hair. If
I'm walking near where they are, I take my hair
down because they say that an owl will see a
bun and think it's something that they can just swoop
down and grab. There are cases of people with things
like that in their hair who've been attacked by birds.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It's the same. And we don't leave Sparky, our long
haired Chihuahua unattended in the backyard. You know, he's.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
He's the size of a rabbit. He would definitely be
picked Could he would be picked up?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, it could be. He looks like a skunk. So
if I ever see a skunk going through the air.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh okay, stop. But I will say another reason I
don't have to feed them. I don't want to mess
with the natural order of things. Where we live, there's
a really nice patch of woods and a creek behind us.
In front of us, there's a lot of trees, which
is why I love it. My country girl heart loves
living where we live. But there's so much for them
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to hunt. Last night, I also saw, before it was
even dark, a raccoon crossed the street right and go
to our neighbor's house, just like I'm thinking, you're a
little early to be out. I've seen bunny rabbits hopping.
They're beautiful, they're brown, you know, they're the size of Sparky.
Now I know those are prey animals. They're the easiest prey.
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I'm thinking, Man, hope you survive. I hope you survived
because this is owl city.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
You know, they're so cute. But I guess that's why
they multiply a lot, because they disappear fast.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And the owls also hunt around the creek because there's
a lot of animals going to the creek for water,
and you know, there's fit like there's a lot of
prey around for them, which is why it's exciting. Yeah,
you're making me excited about my walk tonight at sunset.
I hope I get it.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, maybe I'll come with you tonight, Jodie, because I'm curious.
I want to know if these really if this is
a barn owl and another owl a barn owl both
that sounds you know, I mean it must be.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Because remember we're talking to each other.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
We had a neighbor. Yeah that actually he liked to
simulate and do those calls himself. In fact, they would
foolish because we thought that the owls were out. It
was really just him in the backyard making those noises.
He did that same sound he did the and then
he would go the oh, I don't know he knew that. Yeah,
now that I'm thinking about that, that is true. That's
not a hawk that that's going on.
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