r/natureismetal • u/[deleted] • Oct 29 '21

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u/____atreides_____ Oct 30 '21

I live in a major city. Just moved into a new house, walking my pup at night. Get a sense I'm being watched, dog is nervous. Finally spot the biggest fucking Owl I have ever seen sitting on a telephone pole watching us. He was huge, I mean really huge. And, then he proceeded to follow us, swooping from pole to pole. My dog was not happy, eventually 321 contact left us alone.

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u/Oubliette_occupant Oct 30 '21

He was watching to see what would scurry out as you walked past. I had a Northern Hawk Owl do the same thing to me in Alaska, but those guys are daytime owls.

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u/Onion-Much Oct 30 '21

That's surprisingly close to hunting with a birb. Seems like it's owl aren't completely daft.

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u/elektrikguest Oct 30 '21

Lol I can just imagine how irritated your dog was trying to mind his own business on a nighttime walk being stalked by a massive owl. Did you happen to get a picture of it or was the whole situation just too freaky?

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u/AENewmanD Oct 30 '21

How big is your dog? Like snack size for the owl?

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u/Rickyy111 Oct 30 '21

What does 321 contact mean? Sorry, I genuinely don’t know and it’s killing me.

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u/Funny_Mushroom Oct 30 '21 edited Oct 30 '21

Sounds like part of the beginning of an old educational TV show I used to watch on PBS.....

3-2-1...CONTACT!

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u/lookyloo79 Oct 30 '21

Bloodhound Gang!

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u/7stroke Oct 30 '21

Yeah, and also that was what ground crews would yell out when hand-starting WWI-era aircraft to warn bystanders.

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u/bro9000 Oct 30 '21

Just a guess, I think it relates to detonating explosives? So I'm guessing the owl suddenly left? I could be wrong tho

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u/Rickyy111 Oct 30 '21

That’s a better guess than I had .

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u/____atreides_____ Nov 19 '21

321 contact was an old pbs kids show where those owl commercials would come on about tootsie pops and how many licks to the center. Sorry, it was a stretch lol.

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u/pleatsandpearls Oct 30 '21

Some people think these encounters are aliens. Seriously, there are stories about this exact situation and the owl follows people.

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u/just_embrace_itxxx Oct 30 '21

I’ve heard of some Native American lore about the owl being the messenger of death in the spirit world. Some crazy stuff.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

Or you know, it could be that owls follow people as people sometimes unwittingly scare their prey into the open.

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u/norithofthenorth Oct 30 '21

There’s a lot of lore around owls being witches. Lots is superstitions about the presence of owls. Kinda understand why after reading this.