There's a Great Horned Owl near the house and it is driving me bonkers.
I opened the door and yelled 'SHUT UP AND GO TO SLEEP' and it did shut up for....about two minutes.

WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO .........

I have a couple of Barn owls here, I love the sound they make! As well as 7 Red-tailed Hawks, my rodent populations is nil this year. When the hawks and the owls get into it, the sound is scary.

valerie wrote: There's a Great Horned Owl near the house and it is driving me bonkers.
I opened the door and yelled 'SHUT UP AND GO TO SLEEP' and it did shut up for....about two minutes.

WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO .........

Cool , no more sleep for you . now you can earn here 24/7

An owl around your house means that you have some kind of food that they like near your house. Either it must be some rodents or small animals or insects or small birds. Just get rid of this source and the owls will go with them. Take care and send the owls away and get some sleep. Our family want a number of cool and relaxed heads to maintain the smooth functioning of the body

i love owls,,so cute,but yes they do make a flippin racket,back in Pakistan i had one that came and sat on top of my antenna which i use for my internet connection,boy it made a continuous hooting noise,would move the cables,dislodge the connections,right nuisance it was,

no owls where i live except robins,magpies and crows

perfectshops wrote: An owl around your house means that you have some kind of food that they like near your house. Either it must be some rodents or small animals or insects or small birds. Just get rid of this source and the owls will go with them. Take care and send the owls away and get some sleep. Our family want a number of cool and relaxed heads to maintain the smooth functioning of the body

I think that would be impossible for me. Basically, I live in the woods.

Years ago there was a great horned owl that I would chase. The first time I saw it, it was
on the ground. I was sitting in the screened in porch at the time and saw a little movement
that caught my eye. I had to get the binoculars to see what the heck it was. I thought it
was a big turkey. When I saw what it was, I was shocked. The thing was huge plus it was
walking around on the ground.

By the time I got rather close to it, it flew up in the trees. I was chasing it from tree to tree.
It flew further back into the woods and that was the last time I saw it.

I think I chased it off because there was some kittens out there at the time. I don't recall
why I wanted it gone. It was big enough to carry a small dog away.

You can send me your barn owl & I'll send you my noisy miners. They don't make any noise at night, but from dawn to dusk they let out a very loud "peep" every half second. They are like a metronome & have the timing of an atomic clock.

All day long peep peep peep peep peep peep peep peep peep peep peep peep peep peep. If there are 3,600 seconds in an hour, and a bird chirps every half second, then that is 7,200 times an hour. Multiply that by the 15 hours of daylight in Summer, and that means each bird chirps about 108,000 times a day. And there are dozens of these birds in the neighbourhood, all chirping loudly all day long to mark out their territory. They love urban & suburban gardens, so they are hard to get away from.

Seriously though valerie, if the owl is keeping you awake, have you tried sleeping with earplugs in? I started doing that about 6 years ago just so I could sleep past the break of dawn when the birds all start, and it has made a difference. I can still hear my clock alarm when it goes off, but the noise from outside the window is reduced markedly with the earplugs in.

I live in a rural area and frequently see owls. One roosted outside my bedroom one night so I sympathize with your loss of sleep. However, after a couple of nights, it disappeared and I never heard it again. It must have followed the good hunting.

These are such beautiful birds.

A murder of crows visiting many a morning at sunrise can make
a pretty good racket. I seem to live on the flypath they take from
their nightly roosting place to where ever they go for the day with
a stopover in the tall trees surrounding us. I guess we all have to
bear some or another cross.

@seaeagle There might be some barn owls here but I have never seen any. There are times I hear some screeching and other weird noises so I wouldn't doubt there are barn owls around and maybe other types. They do say the 'Great Horned Owl's' will kill barn owls. That could be very well why I have not noticed barn owls around. There's a large variety of birds here but I could barely begin to tell you their types. BlueJays can be rather noisy. The mockingbirds are noisy but the birds for the most part don't annoy me. Rarely do I hear birds at night. There's the cardinals, various finches and such. There was at one time a white hawk here but that was many years ago. There is wild turkey, turkey vultures, hawks, etc. There's a heron or some such tall bird that likes to eat the frogs in my pond. No way would I use ear plugs. There is wild dogs and such some times that will cause a commotion and I have to get the shot gun and scare them off.

@dutch1898 Crows are one of the smartest birds, they say. At one time there was 3 crows that visited every morning. I would give them corn on the cob that I had plucked from the field next to my property. It was fun to watch them carry it around, eat it, and squawk at each other. Not many crows visit but every so often a few cruise around the grounds.

@lotoole I rarely see owls here but I guess there is some back further in the woods, I don't know. It really could be that the horned owls are here and that would be why there isn't other owls. Of course owls are pretty much nocturnal and I am not out there much at night, especially in the colder months. They are very weird looking birds, for sure, and the babies are really cute.