Comments on: Look hoo’s back!

By: Javier

Javier — Sun, 29 May 2011 18:14:48 +0000

Nice Pic. It is now the homescreen picture of my BlackBerry

By: Lee Petersen

Lee Petersen — Sun, 29 May 2011 18:08:52 +0000

@ Messier Tidy Upper lol
@Michel Very nice!

By: Michel

Michel — Sun, 29 May 2011 16:03:49 +0000

@Lee Petersen
Here you go… All the Dr Who themes from ´63 to ´10
youtube.com/watch?v=6J_3rsEwYVE

By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.

Charles J. Slavis, Jr. — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:04:18 +0000

Scientific owls have bigger beakers…….

By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.

Charles J. Slavis, Jr. — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:01:21 +0000

Google Owl and Cat buddies and you might find a pic like the one I just received on line. Possibly size does matter……..

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Sun, 29 May 2011 05:15:13 +0000

@12. Lee Petersen : Yeah I saw this :

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/05/anti-caturday_post.php

too.

For the record I’m very pro-Caturday posts & I see a few owls sometimes when out walking the dog at night. Or perhaps the same one. I also admit I thought this was going to be a Doctor Who related thread.

By: The Mad LOLScientist, FCD

The Mad LOLScientist, FCD — Sat, 28 May 2011 22:47:00 +0000

oh noes! BAD pz! relees teh WOLz! =^..^=

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sat, 28 May 2011 21:53:57 +0000

The NY Times science section this past Tuesday had a good article on owls and how they’re good predictors of climate change in the arctic regions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/science/24owl.html?_r=1&ref=science

By: Lee Petersen

Lee Petersen — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:04:55 +0000

I think P.Z. Myers just ripped on you on pharyngula. Fight back.

By: Michel

Michel — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:01:16 +0000

@Scott Davis
Dr.Sheldon Cooper is from Texas.
Counts for something.

By: Scott Davis

Scott Davis — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:49:29 +0000

ORLY?

I hate Texas, there’s no wild life, no significant geography, NOTHING.

By: Fritriac

Fritriac — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:27:08 +0000

Owls are great! RLY!

By: Michel

Michel — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:15:16 +0000

sorry….
I´m just a messenger.
*runs*

By: katwagner

katwagner — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:20:16 +0000

A couple of happy thoughts: Great Horned Owls are commonly called the “cat owl” because when they’re just sitting, they look like cats with their big ear tufts and all. That was in one of my bird books.

Aaaand, when the snow melted off our fence row, under this one juniper I found like a zillion owl pellets. All those voles! Hot damn!

By: Robin Byron

Robin Byron — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:11:34 +0000

The trees in the new development where I live in SC aren’t big enough for owls yet but the open areas are perfect for the amazing Killdeer and their equally amazing chicks.

Stuck on the ground until they fledge, the chicks are able to walk and find food for themselves about thirty or so minutes after hatching while the parent birds are completely devoted to their protection from all manner of predators.

With abundant rain and bugs this Spring, the second nesting of chicks are feeding out back as I type.

By: AR

AR — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:41:06 +0000

Awww. They’re lovely! (The pic of them sleeping is just way too cute…)

****

Michel:

Oh, for the love of literacy, seriously?! Is it really too much to ask that we have political leaders who can demonstrate at least elementary-level schooling?

I was wandering about in a local wildlife conservation area just two days ago and happened upon one of the park staff talking to a group of preschool age kids about exactly this. I stopped to listen in for a sec — cuz science teaching is cool! — and one little guy stuck up his hand to explain, basically, how dirty air goes into trees and comes out clean. They all thought that was just the coolest thing ever. How can Rohrabacher not know what a preschooler knows about science?!

By: The Mad LOLScientist, FCD

The Mad LOLScientist, FCD — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:36:28 +0000

WOLz r maded ov AWSUM! not g00d NOMz liek other burdies tho.

h00min self sez: Which reminds me: Have you seen the video of the “real owl & the pussycat”?

http://cuteoverload.com/2011/05/18/the-owl-and-the-pussycat-fer-realsies/

(ov cors I finded it on Cute Overload. sily h00min!) =^..^=

By: josie

josie — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:36:23 +0000

omg Michel…. Here I was being reminded of the critters on exercise trails here where I live *cough* southern California …and you go and soil it with that jerk….so much for awesome rattlesnakes and roadrunners

I would be happy to take this guy on a walk and show him that forests aren’t just a homogeneous “unit per volume ” of trees. He needs some education and we all need him to get it.

By: J. Major

J. Major — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:04:39 +0000

Nice pair of hooters you got there!

By: Michel

Michel — Sat, 28 May 2011 15:04:35 +0000

Oh look they live in trees!!

“Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, needs to hit the science books, forestry experts suggest.

They reached that conclusion after hearing Mr. Rohrabacher declare during a Congressional hearing on Wednesday that clear-cutting the world’s rain forests might eliminate the production of greenhouse gases responsible for climate change.”

Full Story: green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/republicans-climate-solution-clearcut-the-rain-forest/?ref=danarohrabacher