Great Horned Owl Swoops From Tree After Prey - Our first video

A great horned owl swoops in the dark. This owl was used to me - it often perched in the trees by my house and hooo-ed into the night. I approached it that evening with an infrared camcorder and stood right under it. This didn't bother it particularly and it continued to look around the crop field it was perched above. Eventually it decided to swoop to a tree in the center of the field. It likely has a nest nearby as do a pair of barred owls.

**The Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) is a large native of the Americas. It can be up to 27 inches long, have a wingspan of over 60 inches, and weigh over 3 pounds. Owls have amazing binocular vision under low light conditions. Their hearing is acute and they have good depth perception. They can pin point the horizontal and vertical direction of a sound. They hunt by night and sometimes emit a horrible-sounding noise when they make a kill.

This was our first video upload. It was taken by infrared. Added a longer version, OWL-NIGHT CREATURES, SWOOP ATTACK WATCH DEER, after we got better at doing videos.

Other owl videos
OWL ATTACK CLOSE-RARE VIEW NEST OWLETTS SWOOP KILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B-xBMjQZUs
OWL-NIGHT CREATURES, SWOOP ATTACK WATCH DEER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxNY-xO0V5s
Great Horned Owl Courtship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3se9rRoW1o
Great Horned Owl Swoops from tree Slow motion Silent Flier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt-0C1Ujx_I
Great Horned Owl Swoops From Tree After Prey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKDThNVYpJU
Close Wild Owl on Halloween- Monkey Face Swoop -What kind?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKQJaX43qGs

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• Great
• Horned
• Owl
• Swoop
• Night
• Infra
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• Farm
• Scenery

[stoneinmyshoe1]

what was the point of uploading that?

[IrenaScott]

Think it was our first video upload. Also taken by infrared. Added a longer version, OWL-NIGHT CREATURES, SWOOP ATTACK WATCH DEER, after we got better.

[Airsoftman67]

why not?