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OOOOOKay
First - These are not snow owls, or any other rare breed, OR and migratory breed. They are plain old east texas barn owls.
Second - I have already spoken with the local game warden etc and I am well within my rights to blow their feathered arses into the next county since I have lost 120+ chickens to them in two years.
Third - we actually have an INFECTION of them in my county. Every conservationist group around has been contacted. They come. They see they are plain old barn owls that nobody gives a hoot about *ahem* and that won't get them any press and so they move on.
Last year another local farmer caught fourteen of them in nets he rigged up in three days. He offered them to every zoo within 500 miles and every conservationist group he could find. Within a few weeks he was told by the county he had to either let them go or kill them (don't know what that was all about) so like an idiot he took them into the national forest and let them go. The national forest is 4 miles from him, and about 900 yards from me. Now not only is he overrun again, but my place is in a direct flight path to his. If I could catch them at it (and have in the past) then I could get rid of them. I will try the trap on a pole.
By the way the state office estimates there are around 1500 of these birds in my county alone. Sometimes on a nice clear spring night the hooting will cause you to go deaf and insane.
GoodOlBoy
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