Meet The Birds | Flynn the Barn Owl

So cuuute

His far sighted lol

Lovely video. Looking forward to the days I can take my grandkids to a falconry centre again 😊

Thank you for the video on your beautiful barn owl. I enjoyed it.

Flynn is incredibly gorgeous!! Good on you for taking him in and caring for him.

Flynn is beautiful.

you are so knowledgeable , Love your videos

Is Flynn also nocturnal like Wild Barn Owls?

What a beautiful bird. I love your videos.

Got to ask. As a hunter , when I hunt quail, dove, duck and turkey I actually harvest and consume my catch. You say you are a "Falconer " , do you eat/consume what you catch using a falcon? Just curious . . . Love your channel , btw . . . . 😁

Thanks for the owl tutorial. Really interesting!

I seem to recall a story of Flynn and Gylphy

I seem to recall a story of Flynn and Gylphie from Robert E. Fuller, and Flynn in his video looks strangely identical to the Flynn here… 🤔

Thanks for making this video! I'm carving a barn owl for the Ward World Championship Wildfowl Competition. The close-up details while Flynn is on perch and in flight have been a great help in my forming of the feather groups!

What a beautiful creature.

Beautiful video.

Is there a way for me to make a dvd copy of this? I'm a bit of a nerd with some of this digital stuff. Thanks!

I had the pleasure once of dating a woman who ran a raptor rehab center in California. The Barneys were my faves. We would go into the their flight cage and watch them fly from one end to another, after of course weaving back and forth.

Goddamn barn owls are cute!!!!!

as far as hearing you under estimate.... he has the ability to factor sound similiar to differential math he can triangulate that heart beat and tell were the top of the heart is!
one of the team engineers i worked with was a Phd sound designer and his paper was on that type topic.
edit the feathers are not water tight but they are baffled he can fly and barely make a sound.....

Flynn is stunning!!!

👍👍👍👍👍💋💕😍

I sure hope our Canadian (interior British Columbia) owls are OK? bird count this year ...was only one short eared owl ?? From what you say - owls are not long lived 😥 in the wild ? But, this count is dismal .
You are absolutely fascinating, and so knowledgeable !! Thank you for these videos ...I ❤Fable of course , and all your birds & the new farm !! 👍🤩

Is her accent East Anglian?

Barn owls are so Beautiful.

Pray for all the Creator's creatures…especially the children..MARANATHA!

He is a smart barn owl as God intended him to be. I like him. Beautiful

What an amazlng show with special birds and a remarkable woman.... LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

What a stunning bird ♥️

Is it possible to hunt with a barn owl? I've seen a guy called Hoosierpro with a great horned owl and a bit on Eurasian eagle owls. Its rather intriguing to me

We had a Barn Owl as a pet, sorely missed. He was very intelligent. He learned the names of all thirty of his toys. Proof of this was that he would react to their names by snapping his beak and hissing (aggression), even when we said their names in a normal tone of voice (the toys weren't visible at these times). He would hiss the loudest at the mention of his favourite toys and hiss quietly at the ones he found boring. I don't know if falcons would be anywhere as intelligent.

We proved that he had the same intelligence as a young chimpanzee because he reacted in the same way as a young chimpanzee does towards his reflection.

When he had just fledged he would attack his reflection in a mirror, so we covered the mirror. A month later we uncovered the mirror and he stared at his reflection and then walked behind the mirror to see where the 'other' owl was hiding.

After a couple of weeks, he stopped looking behind the mirror and, instead, looked at other things reflected in the mirror, like us, or the room. He would chirrup whenever our eyes met in the mirror, which was his way of saying "Hello".

He also recognised the difference between a reflection in a mirror and what was real. I once stood behind him and raised my left finger. A few seconds later he noticed my finger in the mirror, chirruped, and turned his head to look directly at my left finger.

So is that the reason that an owl can rotate its head? makes more sense if it is to hear the world around the bird than to see it. Flynn is beautiful! Once watched a white middling sized owl here on a gumtree branch in the moonlight. However, a bat and a possum fled in utter terror from the moment the owl landed; the bat hid behind two very large curved leaves and some other foliage in a tree just near the dividing fence, so close that I could see him and the possum disappeared at top speed into the loquat trees in our garden. Their fear was so deep that I could feel it too and have never forgotten their desperate race for life, to hide, to escape. Fortunately my presence on the back porch seemed to deter the owl, who knew I was observing him - admiring him- and so I remained for awhile until the bird flew off in the opposite direction.

I'm slightly disappointed that owls are dim. They're still beautiful though.

Tho hear that this Owl were kept in a tiny rabbit box is devastating. It's also cruel to hold rabbits like that tbh. Not a fan of people having pets and do nothing with them or keep them in tiny boxes. It's just cruel. I am happy he got a chance with this Falkner. She is amazing!

Wow!

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Absolutely beautiful bird.

Rearing a fledgeling Raven. Stays around uncaged. Blended seamlessly with three dogs and cat. Blessed to have him in our lives.

Flynn is spectacular and you are an amazing presenter and soul. You deserve 10 million subscribers. Unfortunately people are more interested in watching other garbage.

I would argue owls are smarter than hawks and falcons but definitely not ravens.

You sound like a very nice person but falconary is a very outdated and ignorant pastime.

If there's nothing wrong

Another thing about their hearing, that shape of the feathers around their face works like a radar disc 📡 would by focusing sound better I believe.

thats a very handsome bird for being three times the age as all other owls of his species..

Amazing birds, and that's some life you're living. 👍👍

Owls are awesome.

We have a couple of wild ones around where I live, you can hear them at night occasionally. I've encountered them twice, once in my back garden it landed on my fence while I was star gazing at 3am and the second was a little more scary.

I finished a late shift at work and walking home. It was around 1:30am and I was walking through a very dark lane that connected a housing estate to an industrial estate, it's a rough area so I just keep my head down and walk fast. Anyway I saw a small rodent, I'm guessing a field mouse running in my direction and then past me, look up and I'm almost face to face with this Owl as it approaches this rodent.

Unfortunately I got in the way and it didn't catch the rodent, but coming face to face with an Owl unexpectedly like that, especially when I'm already on alert due to it being a rough area, is pretty scary!

You are such a fortunate person to have your skills, so that you are able to get close to such beautiful birds. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for sharing your interesting information on falconry it’s a very fascinating subject. ❤

Flyn is a very beautiful and curious Barn Owl. I can watch him all day.