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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 6453433, member: 10944&quot;]Owls are potentially the most fascinating bird. My folks have some living in the woods behind their place. Heard often, seen infrequently. You do see them though if you keep your eyes open. Rarely well though. One day I was metal detecting a long overgrown former cart path in the woods of a very historic US town. I went right up until dark and past that. As I called it quits and began the walk back to the road and my car a spooky feeling fell over the woods. The older the town the more it often does. I began to imagine myself as being in the 17th or 18th century as a resident who had to make their way down the path on foot at night and what the woods must have felt like then. At that point I enjoyed an occasional tobacco smoke. I would always leave a bit of tobacco behind me on the path to appease any forest spirits who may be on my tail. Lol. Another thing I would do as I got a few minutes from the road was smack the broadside of the back of my shovel against a tree. This would hopefully dislodge most of the now hopefully dry dirt off my shovel before it went in my trunk. That night I picked a young but stout enough tree by moonlight. The ground was very wet where I was digging so I smacked the tree extra hard. This put quite a shock in the owl that had apparently been watching me from not far above. I honestly don’t recall if it screeched or not but I want to say it did. It then swooped down nearly brushing my face to fly off to a new roost. This in turn gave me a bigger shock. I picked up my pace and breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the clearing of the road beyond the last branches. The things that go bump in the night really seem a bit spookier in the dark woods. In daylight you can’t imagine anything to be afraid of, at night alone in the woods you can imagine many things, just as they must have way back when. That was the closest I got to an owl.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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