Posted: 4/18/2005 7:36:48 PM EDT
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I've posted this before. But now its getting kinda eeeriee, I figure I post again and see what you guys think. Every place I have lived there has been an owl living in a tree nearby. As far as I can remember, it started when I was about 9 and we lived in Stockton, CA. The house we moved into had a tree in a backyard. I recall going out back by the garage and putting out the trash. Looked up and saw an owl perched on a tree. We lived there for about 2yrs and I could always here the owl hooting very early in the morning or late at night. When we lived in the Bay Area. There was a tree in the backyard of our next door neighbor where some of the branches droop over our yard. There was an owl there. Could hear it hoot every so often. In bootcamp, although I never saw it, I could hear an owl hooting by our barracks. When I moved to my duty station. The apartment I lived at had an owl in the tree outside our balcony. Same with all the apartments I lived at. One in particular, the owl would actually, at times, sit on the railing of our patio. I came home one time and thought my then GF bought a stuffed owl to put up as a decoration. I walked out in the patio and reached for it. Imagine my surprise when it spread its wings and best way I can describe it, hissed at me. I backed off and went back inside. It flew away. When I moved to TX, the apartment I lived at had an owl in the tree accross the walkway from my patio. I could hear it hoot every so often. I just moved to an aparment here and I walk out to go to work this morning. What do I hear?? An owl hooting. Dunno from which tree yet, cause the sound was echoing in the courtyard. I can hear the owl now as I am typing this. Someone posted once that the American Indians often view this as some sort of drastic change kind of an omen. I am starting to think an owl is following me around. Is this good luck?? Bad Luck??? What??? |
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Well I know that everywhere I have lived there has always been open land nearby. Last place I lived at in TX There were lots of squirrels runing around. Right now I back into a the lake and an adjacent marsh area. |
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There are a fair number of owls around. I see them everywhere I go. I also frequently see humpback whales, Tlingit Indians and alcoholics of all ethnicities. Today I saw a bunch of seagulls diving into the shore. Some fat bird sitting on a branch does not portend much of anything to me except for the fact that it indicates we have not yet succeeded in wiping that particular branch of nature out. |
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The only adverse consequences that I know associated with owls is the lockup of national forestland b/c of the Spotted and Mexican Spotted Owls. I mean, if you want to be superstitious about birds, great, but at least do that old apostate Hasidic custom of whirling the live chicken around your head or something... |
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I have them around my place, love them, one pf my favorite preditor bird. I have had one "follow" me while bow hunting for a couple days, at one time it flew within 3 ft of me, Friggen awsome. When I made a bow kill the following day, it flew in and sat on tree limb about 20ft from me, and waited while I gutted the deer, watched me the whole time, when I left, it went in and ate on the gut pile, another awsome sight, I had snuck back in to the area to watch. Some American indian tribes beleive the owl is a symbol of death, and if you see one, it means someone is going to die. I dont beleive that myth. |
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There is also a great Arnold Lobel children's book series with a dimwitted owl. In one episode the owl spends the entire night terrorized by two mysterious lumps underneath his covers which turn out to be his knees. There is a important moral to this story somewhere. |
I heard it was crows... when they come in threes', look out. Of course, that was the grandpa-in-law's tradition. |
The ones around here speak of owls. |
heard the same tales growin' up.....owls are bad ju-ju in indian tradition |