Great Horned Owl Encounter

[MPSecare]

Canada's terrain is freaking awesome!!!!!!!

Note the sweet Pilleated (sp?) woodpecker shot!!!!

[lovesvivienleigh]

Really beautiful video!!!

[lightningbolt61]

Nice Doe 3:36

[rdcoop89]

Metroid Prime anyone?

[pedalboy]

They are beautiful. We have a park in Huntington Beach, California where there is an entire family of them that live there.

[jeffgordonadi24]

at 2:10 the owl winked at the camera

[zombiexxxxxxxxxxx]

i watched this with my 2 year old and she fell asleep on my lap she has a thing with owls it was cute vary nice video two thumbs up

[1980vince]

there ears, your mama has horns

[drinny26]

MUTE!

[sparkle11231]

Great film, great music to go with it. Favorited it! Is this in Canada?

[JCVdude]

@sparkle11231 Yes it is, the Okanagan. And I'll tell Cindy too. This is one of her songs. :)

[TheBearOnTheCeiling]

Yeah I was mistaken... this is definitely a great horned owl.

[danceswithmoths]

this is a long-eared owl, not a great horned

[Onry1]

Where was this filmed?

[captainjimcook]

Well photographed. Like the music. LOVE owls! Glad you were able to spot and record one.

[590275502]

Wow.... amazing clip and i must know the title to this music

[JCVdude]

@590275502 Thanks!! As for the music, it's called Maligne by Cindy of JCVdude. She composed it using SONY Acid.

[590275502]

@JCVdude Thank you so much for the song title merry christmas ^^

[natenkristy]

this is definitely a great horned owl. the long eared owl has markings on the outsides of their eyes that look like long strips. this owl had the more rounded markings around the eyes.

[owlcu]

It's kind of spooky knowing the owl sees the cameraman about 100 times better than the cameraman sees him.

[nickfromdtown1992]

i saw one of these in the wild. you always think theyre big but when you actually see it. oh my god there so beastly. easily one of the coolest things ive seen

[fortboy84]

just show the damn owl enough with the stupid music and intro...you suck

[49849snow]

As well as investing time you ought to

put forth some money into a inexpensive

HD Camcorder. Their very cheap now.

Winter - 2009. A Kodak Zi8 would do fine

[KempoSteve99]

this is a long eared owel not a great horned ,but a great job anyway

[Ramal123]

OMG....just watch the video! LOL!

[blueovalboy351]

Looks a lot like Northern Minnesota, one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

[CanadiaNecro1]

They live in small towns too and I see them and the barn owl depart their daytime roosts in the evening. They keep other rapors away. I saw one pluck a bat from the air once.

[a1mint]

Owl, the sky cat on steroids.

[leif902]

I dunno about cat (They'll eat a bobcat after all); they're often called the Great-White of the Sky though

[xkennyPLx]

the beauty of nature suprises me

[monsterzero335]

ive never seen a real own in person ...there one of my favorite animals

[cryptic072]

hope you get the chance they're quite impressive

[shoebobs]

I just saw one today, being harrassed by some crows..such a magnificent creature

[cannibalion]

A Great Horned owl kept eating my freind's baby ducks. One day he found it attacking so he attacked back with a stick and the thing almost maimed him! It was about three feet tall and its talons as big as your hand. They are huge birds! They're so magnificent and frightening!!!

[Joshhh81]

wow what a majestic creature, that must've been quite an incredible experience for you. I bet it can zoom in on you like that too, maybe even see the hairs on your arms and the color of your eyes from that distance. they are amazing.

[BungalowJo]

It's a long-eared owl--narrower "v" wedge from beak to tufts, more vertical pattern on breast feathers, no white collar in front.

[TheBearOnTheCeiling]

I believe that is a Long Eared Owl, not a Great Horned. Im going off of its coloration and ear tuffs lenght. Also it has a much more pronounced v shape to its face than most great horns do.

[JCVdude]

wow thanks for all the information.

[norseleague]

@TheBearOnTheCeiling Long eared owl all right....

[realsaraSKELLINGTON]

@TheBearOnTheCeiling you are wrong. That is a great horned owl. go look up a long eared owl and then look at the difference.

[Bassistdan1]

@TheBearOnTheCeiling You are correct, Bear. That IS a "Long-eared" Owl! GORGEOUS animal!

[falcoperegrinus82]

@TheBearOnTheCeiling Nah, it's a great-horned; it's bulky, has the white "bowtie", and the heavily barred breast.

[TheBearOnTheCeiling]

@falcoperegrinus82 Yeah your right, he does look funny though lol. It has been awhile, but last time I looked at this post I was much more inexperienced.

[6400az]

@TheBearOnTheCeiling

It does look like a Lomg Eared Owl at first. It looks slimmed down and the ear tufts very long. But this is an aspect of behavior with owls. It may be feel threatend so it's trying to blend in with the tree trunk behind it.

[JCVdude]

It was so amazing. I used to have a smaller one roost in trees in our yard a few years ago, but it was always dusk and we could just barely make it out. This one was huge and when he flew off the branch, it didn't make any sound. We we were totally in awe.

[Azzhole81]

I would like to see one in real life

[UJS8X]

it's comepletely different to see owls in the wild than to see them in zoos or on a falconer's glove. It's an amazing experience. The first time I ever saw a wild great horned owl I was walking through the woods at dusk and I felt something silently brush past my hair and I looked up and I saw an owl had flown right over my head and it majestically landed in a tree in front of me. It looked at me for a while and said "hoot hoot hoot hooooooot" and then it flow away into the dark.

[KaterJames]

i wish i could be there

[tking3950]

soo cooooool!! 5/5