OHIO-BIRDS Archives

January 2010

OHIO-BIRDS@LISTSERV.MIAMIOH.EDU
Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
Re: Fake Great Horned Owl in Lakewood.
From:
Margaret Bowman <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Margaret Bowman <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:45:23 -0500
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (56 lines) 
Some local restaurants in Newark use fake Great Horned Owls on their
dumpsters, supposedly to discourage rats and mice.  I have no idea whether
it works or not.  I, too, had people call me about the "tame" owls in the
area.

Margaret Bowman
Licking Co., OH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Milenski" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] Fake Great Horned Owl in Lakewood.


>> I received a few phone calls and emails about a Great Horned Owl perched
>> on a building across from the INA building in downtown Lakewood. I just
>> went to confirm it, and it is fake. Just giving birders a heads up in the
>> area.
>>
>
> I knew that when they put that thing up it would fool a few people.
>
> There's also a house on Hilliard that has a similar fake owl in the front
> yard, and it could fool a few people in the dark.
>
> By the way, that's only half a block away from where I saw two screech
> owls Monday
> night, on trees on the treelawns of Belle.  These were real.  :-)
>
> And, of course, a few blocks away is the Westerly, atop which a
> peregrine falcon perches
> regularly.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
> Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.
> Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at
> www.ohiobirds.org/forum/.
>
> You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
> http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
> Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]
>

______________________________________________________________________

Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.
Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/.

You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]

ATOM RSS1 RSS2