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Originally Posted by alum
I live in true suburbia near a major city. I was driving my 7th-grader home from Boy Scouts around 7 pm. It was still bright out, not nearly dusk. We were near our racquet club on a residential street and a big, fat bird with soft-looking brown, tan and white feathers flew VERY LOW across the street.
My son and I discussed this bird the rest of the way home. Definitely predator size, body wasn't streamlined enough to be a hawk or eagle. The feathers looked mottled as are an owl's. My Boy Scout says barn owl. He's probably correct but I am thinking G.H. If it was a barn, it was a VERY big one.
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My husband likes to tell the story of how a Great Horned Owl nested in their barn. One day he (or his grandpa, I can never remember) startled it and it swooped and flew out the front -- the tips if its wings brushing the edges of the door as it went out. The door is easily 8-10' wide!
We hear them occasionally in our neighborhood (they keep the pigeons to a minimum, thank goodness) but I don't think I've ever seen one.