Dave, it's a pretty bird, and it makes a neat noise. I love to hear them at night. Haunting song. Melancholic song. Poetic.When I was getting out of my truck tonight at the airport, I hear a loud ruckus nearby, and I just knew it was that new guy making a mess in the hangar next door again. I snapped a pic in an effort to try to get him to flock off. See pic:
We had been watching his um pile grow, thank God it was not on the beautiful KingAir that parks there. This is really nasty. I used disretion and did not post a picture of it here.
I love owls, and they prey on the critters than can really make a mess of your airplane...like mice and songbirds. (And I like songbirds.) The castings (aka the mess) will prove that out.
Get covers for the airplanes, and enjoy your free pest control.
He's welcome in my hangar. I have 6 of them to keep the other ones away. Three of them can hoot.
It works.
When I had the 150 and parked it in the open hangar, I put two Mr. Hoot Owls ( Eyes light up and they Hoot) in the rafters above. Everyone made fun of me until they had all the bird dropings on their planes and I had none. When I moved into the enclosed hangar, a couple other owners wanted to buy them to put above their planes.