thepolinator
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Sudbury, ON
I had a seagull nail a bass lure. That was painful to unhook.
Owl steals my MoJo decoy
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heavyBullet
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Just off the island of MTL
badgreenbird
Regular
- Location
- Dawson Creek, BC
Nice Barred Owl.
I had a goshawk swoop down on my duck decoys - twice - but it figured something was wrong when they didn't move, and took off. I have had Bald Eagles swoop down and snatch ducks that I had just shot. Eventually I took to feeding them if I had a bufflehead or hooded merg in the bag... just paddled out, made sure the eagle was watching and tossed the dead duck into open water. After seeing the splash, the eagle would swoop down and grab it only a few yards away... pretty awesome but I didn't have a video camera at the time.
- Location
- SW Ontario
I had an osprey swoop and scoop a topwater musky lure on the French River. I cut the line because I didn't want THAT in the boat. I hope the line didn't get tangled in it's talons.
heavyBullet
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Just off the island of MTL
No lie, when I read this I thought it said "take the toupee off my head"
Now THAT would be hilarious .
leveractionjunkie
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Kamloops, BC
NShunter1254
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Nova Scotia Canada
I think this guy has the winning story
http://www.thevanguard.ca/News/2014...k/1?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
An owl attacked a rabbit hunter on Digby Neck.
Kevin O’Neil was coming home from checking his rabbit snares in Mink Cove Tuesday night, Feb. 10.
He had gone in towards his hunting camp on the Bay of Fundy side and saw the owl sitting in a tree.
He says he talked to it.
Then a half hour later, just as it was getting dark, the owl attacked.
“I came home from lobster fishing and went to my rabbit snares,” he said. “And on the way back to my truck carrying a couple of rabbits, a barred owl swopped down and struck me in the face.
“The pictures tell the rest—it was pretty freaky.”
O’Neil says he has no idea why and he’s never had a problem with owls before.
“It hit me in the face,” he said. “First it knocked me over in the snow but it didn’t go for the rabbits. It went right at my face.
“Then it landed in a tree not far from where I was setting."
David McCorquodale, the Dean of Science and Technologyand a professor of Biology at the Cape Breton University says it is unusual for an owl to attack a human.
"Not unheard of, but very unusual," he wrote in an email to the Courier. "Chances are he was near a pair that was setting up a nesting territory. That is the typical reason a bird will fly at a human."
McCorquodale says the bird was either a Barred Owl or a Great Horned Owl. Barred Owls have dark brown eyes and no noticeable ear tufts while a Great Horned Owl has bright yellow eyes and noticeable ear tufts.
http://www.thevanguard.ca/News/2014...k/1?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
An owl attacked a rabbit hunter on Digby Neck.
Kevin O’Neil was coming home from checking his rabbit snares in Mink Cove Tuesday night, Feb. 10.
He had gone in towards his hunting camp on the Bay of Fundy side and saw the owl sitting in a tree.
He says he talked to it.
Then a half hour later, just as it was getting dark, the owl attacked.
“I came home from lobster fishing and went to my rabbit snares,” he said. “And on the way back to my truck carrying a couple of rabbits, a barred owl swopped down and struck me in the face.
“The pictures tell the rest—it was pretty freaky.”
O’Neil says he has no idea why and he’s never had a problem with owls before.
“It hit me in the face,” he said. “First it knocked me over in the snow but it didn’t go for the rabbits. It went right at my face.
“Then it landed in a tree not far from where I was setting."
David McCorquodale, the Dean of Science and Technologyand a professor of Biology at the Cape Breton University says it is unusual for an owl to attack a human.
"Not unheard of, but very unusual," he wrote in an email to the Courier. "Chances are he was near a pair that was setting up a nesting territory. That is the typical reason a bird will fly at a human."
McCorquodale says the bird was either a Barred Owl or a Great Horned Owl. Barred Owls have dark brown eyes and no noticeable ear tufts while a Great Horned Owl has bright yellow eyes and noticeable ear tufts.
Fishing from a canoe on the Wasega river. I steering. Bait is a large ball of worms. My buddy casts it out and before it had a chance to sink, seagull swallowed it. What a frickin' cacophony that was!! Suddenly there were 50 seagulls dive bombing us. I'm trying to keep them off with the paddle, Joe trying to reel it in and set the drag higher so it didn't fly away with all his line. Finally he just cut it. Gull had 100ft of line with him, a large ball of food, and one big hook. Soon as he cut the line, gull flew off screaming, and the others followed it.
Definitely good strategy...air superiority. Scared the crap outta me! No time to paddle, wildly swinging a paddle while in a canoe...apparently funny as hell to the folks sitting on the deck of their cottage...
Definitely good strategy...air superiority. Scared the crap outta me! No time to paddle, wildly swinging a paddle while in a canoe...apparently funny as hell to the folks sitting on the deck of their cottage...
