We have one young owl hanging around in the oak trees here at the Boggy Thicket this year. He’s almost full sized now, but still an adolescent. Like most owls, he spends the majority of his time just sitting there, perched on a limb.
Other birds, particularly mockingbirds, don’t like owls around, and they do their best to drive him away. They fuss at him and fly at him like kamikaze dive-bombers. It doesn’t have much effect, but eventually the owl will fly off – usually to another limb no more than 100 feet away.
Yesterday evening, about dusk, our young owl landed in a big oak tree about twenty feet above one of our hummingbird feeders. We sat and watched as he was attacked by a hummingbird! Needless to say, the little hummer didn’t do any damage, but it didn’t take him long to drive the owl away.
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