At 5am I finally learned what is out there looking for a free duck dinner. I was an OWL!
Something moved through the back yard and tripped the motion sensor flood lights. Those lights coming on woke me up. Then I heard it calling. By the sound of the call, I have a GREAT HORNED OWL living in my corner of the burbs.
http://www.owlpages.com/sounds.php
So this is one predator I can't dispatch. Like the hawk we had issues with a few years back, owls are protected. We can only use defense, no offense. Time to swap the netting for hardware cloth.
Apparently death comes from the skies around here.
http://wildlife.state.co.us/WildlifeSpecies/Profiles/Birds/GreatHornedOwl.htm
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