attract owl

[broody rooster]

hello i know this sounds kind of crazy but i am currently doing personal research on barred owls and one lives in my neighborhood and i've only seen it once before it was a beautiful animal and i wish to try to get a better look at it and i've seen some people catch hawks with rats mice or small birds in a cage . i have no intention of capturing this owl but to get a closer look at it and i was thinking get a feeder mouse and put it in a safe cage and put out a video camera to see if i can see it at night i hear it almost every night i assume its a male due to its low pitched call . does anyone have an experience with barred owl diet preference in case there is something better than a mouse i could attempt to use as "bait " as well as your own personal observations ? i currently don't have chickens anymore due to a red tail hawk living across the street as well as the sharp shin living be hind our house ? thank you all

 

[trailrider330]

We have a neighborhood barred owl that we see and hear on a regular basis. It will even answer back when I mimic it's call. I was able to get pictures of it sitting in a tree one day with a small snake in its talons, but other than that, not sure what they prefer to eat. Regardless, it was quite an amazing sight!

 

[broody rooster]

the one in my neighborhood does the same thing !! i wish i could get a better look at it i love owls almost as much as i love crows ive also wanted to observe vultures which id imagine would be as easy as catching a descent sized fish and leaving it in the sun to start to smell