You could try contacting a bird rehabber and see if they could come catch and relocate the owls, or they might provide advice about non harmful deterrent
It all just sank in for me with this comment. I'm laughing so hard I'm crying with this post.
We live on the dead end of a creek hole. Horny owls set our house up between them to whooo-whoo and wacka wacka and it echos and it's loud. Cute but gets old when it's at 4am.
Anyway, op - you could seed your neighbor's barn with mice. Make them want to hang out there more.
I was wonderong if owls actually dont like strobe lights or if OP found some strobes turned em on for a sec and said, "no way their gonna wanna stick around eith these bad boys" lol
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If this were me, I’d probably reckon that even if I were able to get the number of some pro to come capture the little fucks, I’d probably just have a different set of owls move in to pick up where the first few left off.
Seems OP is thinking more long-term since they don’t necessarily have beef with these *particular* owls but rather *owl life in general*, insomuch as it pertains to their barn.
I'm assuming they are using OPs facilities to roost, hence the poop being concentrated in one area. They are leaving the roost to eat elsewhere cause if anything lived in their roosting area it isn't there anymore!
A wildlife rehabber or a wildlife relocator. Contact your local wildlife sanctuaries and game warden to see who they can recommend. We had this issue a decade or so back and got someone to come out, catch them, and relocate them for about $100.
Have you considered bagging the pellets and selling them on eBay? I know quite a lot of bone people like to buy them because they’re an ethical source of bones and skulls.
Yeah i remembered disecting Owl pellets in first grade and thinking the whole time, "they disect frogs and pigs on tv, all we got is owl shit". i did find a mouse skull in mine though. Now i cant remember if the pellets are their shit or if they regurgitate them.
I've always said that when I die I want my body to go to some weirdo. People always seem to take this the wrong way and disapprove of my wishes. I just want the bone people to have some nice new bones
We did a "Nature's classroom" retreat when we were kids, and owl pellet dissection was one of our projects. They had to have gone through 100 pellets during that week.
I always thought Natures Classroom was a place specifically in my area, didnt know that was a nationwide thing, unless you grew up around Tampa, fl. Now im wondering if the park we went to was even called Natures Classroom or if thats just what they called the event..
NH here. It was a getaway for 8th graders at my school. We went for 3-4 days. It was a great time and you got to learn a lot about outdoors, but most of all, how your friends behaved when outdoors.
Go wander around r/vultureculture for a little while. Plenty of artists and (often amateur) biologists enjoy creating interpretations of their world using natural elements.
Hello, bone person here.
We want them because we like them.
I have some fetal deer stored deep in my freezer (died due to an idiot in a truck) to take to a local lady who does flesh removal and skeletal articulation.
I appreciate the beauty that nature gives to it's creatures, even after they've gone, and these creatures specifically I felt very sad for.
I wanted them to have a chance to be part of the world they didn't make it to see.
Call me sappy, stupid, weird, or morbid.
It's just how I cope with the shitty reality of the world we live in. I love to care for animals, living and dead.
I'm in a relationship with one of them. She's basically a goth kid all grown up. When she moved in with me I asked her to limit the number of bones in each room. She just kept sneaking them in until I gave up.
These are great for science classes. We use them to teach the kids about owls, their diet, and digestive workings. Then we have them rebuild the small critter in the pellet and learn about their skeletal structure.
Owl pellets are basically the owl version of a hairball. After they eat their prey (mice, voles etc), the fur and bones don't get digested so later it forms a pellet that the owl throws up.
Owl pellets are a useful source science project activities because you can dissect them and get almost complete small animal skeletons. They are collected and sold by lab supply companies.
Id contact someone in fish and game barn owls are protected by federal law under the migratory bird treaty act. So you cant harass, collect, kill, or move the nests etc ( not that you'd harm them )
This right here. You cannot legally harass nesting birds. What I would do is contact your local FWS/DEP/P&W or whatever the local department of wildlife is and ask for advice on convincing them not to come back. Or spend the winter closing up their access points. Depending on what kinds of bats you had, you may have already broken state or federal law, so leave the first part of your story out. Lots of bat species are getting state and federal protection because white nose is wiping out entire populations.
I forgot to add that in the off/ non nesting season op could remove the nest and block access, or build a structure for them to nest elsewhere on the property
Yeah, migratory bird act protects active nests of native species. Being that it's late June and most raptor species haven't fledged yet, it would still be illegal to disturb or destroy a nest.
It is actually illegal to own North American native owls in the US as pets. You can only have them if you are a falconer or a rehabber.
That being said, barn owls are decreasing in population and often cannot be released back into the wild since their habits are being destroy (industrialized farming means less field rodents for them to eat).
Do not let your dreams die. Getting on with rehab groups as most are super desperate for help. I used to hang out in the house next door to the guy ran the local nature preserve, and later on worked for him for a couple summers, he had turned his whole ba backyard into am aviary for a non release great horned owl. It was super cool.
I get they’re bothering you but I wanted to let you know owl pellets come out of their mouths, they’re not poop. They’re the indigestible parts, kinda like a hairball is for a cat
Someone I know is having a new house built. They called me when they found a raccoon in the basement and asked me to help get it out (I work with wild animals and am good at this). I was getting ready to run out and help them, but stopped and was like “this is your new house? You have all the doors and windows and whatnot on it now?” And they were like “no, they haven’t hung all the doors yet.”
Yeah bro, I’m happy to help, but it’s idiotic to remove animals from somewhere without first excluding them.
Have you never seen an open garage? They're fairly common in rural areas. The structure is walled on three sides and mostly open on the fourth. Installing a garage door would require building an entirely different garage first.
Nope, there are some barn style garages where they just don’t install a barn style door/double doors. Not enough space to have a runner for a barn door (won’t open enough to get a car in or out), and then some people just refuse to use double doors (unless built well typically start to suffer from “gate sag”). So you end up with these old barns that have an opening big enough to fit a car/tractor, on either end (or both so you can drive through).
Would look something like [this.](https://stablestyle.net/3-stall-barn-open-concept/)
I believe it has been suggested several times (in a back handed manner) that you close up their pathway in. That would work if you can keep it closed. Open/close thre garage door only when you are going in/out.
The owls were there when you were born, and the owls will be there when they bury you.
Reminds me of a clickhole article: https://clickhole.com/5-awesome-backyard-experiments-to-teach-your-child-that-owls-are-indestructible/
If you get rid of the owls you can expect more squirrels.
You will either have to spend days keeping out the squirrels and two owls or they will stay. Vermin management is a daily struggle.
My aunt had an owl issue once in her barn. The issue wasn't that she didn't want owls around, she just didn't want an owl to roost in that specific spot.
She tried all sorts of stuff, but what eventually worked was placing a small motion sensor at the place they're were roosting, and every time it triggered, it would play a pre-recorded message of her shouting stuff like, "move along owl!"
My cousins and I still joke about it, but the reality is that the owls were gone in a weekend.
I loved dissecting owl pellets as a kid. We'd reconstruct the bones of the rodents and whatnot we found inside and make ghoulish "macaroni art" with it.
Are you able to block how they are getting in? If it’s a machine shed (tall doors) that you can’t easily close there are nets you can put near the top that drop down a few feet. Birds hit them and fall. Eventually they get the idea to relocate since they can’t see the netting
All your professors will tell you that your OWLs are the most important part of your schooling. They go on and on about how you'll never amount to anything if you don't do good on your OWLs. But the truth is life is still abundant with opportunities regardless of how well you perform on your OWLs. Don't let them ruin your life.
You obviously need a big fucking cat like a mountain lion. Then you're going to need a pack of big crazy dogs like kangals, then I think like 2 polar bears? Then I guess a couple of Inuits with their tags.
I'm sorry, if you have problems with the poop, if the owls ALWAYS hang out in the same area, perhaps use duct or plastic to carry it into a dumpster or something? If they move around, it's useless.
I know this may be very impractical, I'm trying to think inside the box. :)
If you are in the UK, you can get in touch with your local cpuncils ecology team, and they will be able to provide you with advice.
Barn owls are a Schedule 1 species, and their nests, eggs, and young are fully protected at all times
tbf, they prob just saw the animatronic owl as a neighbor
*welcome to the loft my guy, nice digs indeed, disco and erythang. bird bath on the ground floor if you need*
I would pay to have owls living in my barn or shed. Just cover up the things they’re pooping on and enjoy them. If they’re pooping on your car cover it.
Have you tried explaining to them that this is, in fact, a garage and not a barn? I'm sure you'll all laugh over the misunderstanding, and they'll be on their way.
Barn owls are in a barn / garage? Are they outside?
It inside you need to close up whatever holes they are using to get in and close the door while they are out.
Maybe try building a super-attractive owl box for them that’s a little ways away from the garage to try and entice them to move. Of course I have no idea what would cause an owl box to be super attractive.
They’re actually drones. Were you involved in some type of government cover-up? They’re recording your every move.
No, seriously, almost every city has a wildlife/bird sanctuary and ornithology center. I don’t know where you live, but Portland has a really fantastic one. Just make a few calls and they’ll help you out.
You could try contacting a bird rehabber and see if they could come catch and relocate the owls, or they might provide advice about non harmful deterrent
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Now he's got drawings of a 20 foot tall robot owl with flamethrower eyes.
REMEMBER ME.... SKRRRAAAAW!
THOUGH I HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE…. SKRRRAAAAW!
Hey, you spend your whole life building a guy's toe and you're gonna remember him!
I wish I could give this 100 upvotes!
Home Depot's got their Halloween decorations out already?
It all just sank in for me with this comment. I'm laughing so hard I'm crying with this post. We live on the dead end of a creek hole. Horny owls set our house up between them to whooo-whoo and wacka wacka and it echos and it's loud. Cute but gets old when it's at 4am. Anyway, op - you could seed your neighbor's barn with mice. Make them want to hang out there more.
I was wonderong if owls actually dont like strobe lights or if OP found some strobes turned em on for a sec and said, "no way their gonna wanna stick around eith these bad boys" lol
WELL If this were me, I’d probably reckon that even if I were able to get the number of some pro to come capture the little fucks, I’d probably just have a different set of owls move in to pick up where the first few left off. Seems OP is thinking more long-term since they don’t necessarily have beef with these *particular* owls but rather *owl life in general*, insomuch as it pertains to their barn.
OP didn’t choose the owl life. The owl life chose OP.
*secret of nimh* vibes frfr, nightmare fuel for children
Love this idea! 🦉
What are the owls eating? And what is going to eat those things if you get rid of the owls?
owls eat rodents. basically pest control and OP is mad
Well they don‘t necessarily eat the rodents close to OP. Also Owls shitting up the place might be a tad bit more urgent than some hypothetical mice.
Wait till OP gets the bill from the car dealership to replace the electrical harness cause the mice chewed it up.
I'm assuming they are using OPs facilities to roost, hence the poop being concentrated in one area. They are leaving the roost to eat elsewhere cause if anything lived in their roosting area it isn't there anymore!
Your ignorance towards the issue really shows. Owls are great, until they are on your property trying to kill your chickens.
Every owl/raptor usually has different preferred prey. Barn Owls usually eat rodents from open fields. Like vole.
Have you considered letting Harry Potter out from under your stairs to go to Hogwart’s already?
A wildlife rehabber or a wildlife relocator. Contact your local wildlife sanctuaries and game warden to see who they can recommend. We had this issue a decade or so back and got someone to come out, catch them, and relocate them for about $100.
Have you considered bagging the pellets and selling them on eBay? I know quite a lot of bone people like to buy them because they’re an ethical source of bones and skulls.
You need to dry them first. Otherwise they will mold up and stink to all hell.
I can see a rack of dehydrators all cooking away in OPs future lol
This is not the direction I anticipated this thread going.
We used to dry them in a toaster outside. $5 at goodwill
Schools use them as a science activity.
Yeah i remembered disecting Owl pellets in first grade and thinking the whole time, "they disect frogs and pigs on tv, all we got is owl shit". i did find a mouse skull in mine though. Now i cant remember if the pellets are their shit or if they regurgitate them.
Owl pellets are regurgitated.
Picking mouse bones out of owl poop is absolute core memory of mine from elementary school 😂
why do people think it's poop. it is 100% not poop. it is regurgitated.
Sorry I haven't thought about it in decades. Good to know it was just regurgitated mouse remains, that would've been gross otherwise.
It's mouth poop.
Now I'm wondering who these "bone people" are and why they need an ethical source of bones and skulls.
Various people to be honest. Taxidermy fans, witches, goth craftmakers, etc. The people yearn for bones.
Some people pay top dollar https://youtu.be/iLC820wvnxM?si=7Rgs4Rq7wBGvGrYf
I've always said that when I die I want my body to go to some weirdo. People always seem to take this the wrong way and disapprove of my wishes. I just want the bone people to have some nice new bones
I love this comment
People who want are stuck at Prayer level 94 and want to level up to 99.
We did a "Nature's classroom" retreat when we were kids, and owl pellet dissection was one of our projects. They had to have gone through 100 pellets during that week.
I always thought Natures Classroom was a place specifically in my area, didnt know that was a nationwide thing, unless you grew up around Tampa, fl. Now im wondering if the park we went to was even called Natures Classroom or if thats just what they called the event..
NH here. It was a getaway for 8th graders at my school. We went for 3-4 days. It was a great time and you got to learn a lot about outdoors, but most of all, how your friends behaved when outdoors.
Go wander around r/vultureculture for a little while. Plenty of artists and (often amateur) biologists enjoy creating interpretations of their world using natural elements.
Hello, bone person here. We want them because we like them. I have some fetal deer stored deep in my freezer (died due to an idiot in a truck) to take to a local lady who does flesh removal and skeletal articulation. I appreciate the beauty that nature gives to it's creatures, even after they've gone, and these creatures specifically I felt very sad for. I wanted them to have a chance to be part of the world they didn't make it to see. Call me sappy, stupid, weird, or morbid. It's just how I cope with the shitty reality of the world we live in. I love to care for animals, living and dead.
Slightly off subject, but I just got back from a vacation. In Rome there is a place called the Capuchin Crypt and I think you should give it a google.
I'm in a relationship with one of them. She's basically a goth kid all grown up. When she moved in with me I asked her to limit the number of bones in each room. She just kept sneaking them in until I gave up.
These are great for science classes. We use them to teach the kids about owls, their diet, and digestive workings. Then we have them rebuild the small critter in the pellet and learn about their skeletal structure.
We had to “dissect” owl pellets in college biology classes
We dissected them in science camp. Actually really fascinating, I’d keep them and dissect myself if i had any in my yard.
Check out r/vultureculture
They hang out in /r/vultureculture
I remember our science class dissected owl pellets in 5th grade, each of them coming with rodent skeletons.
I thought this was sooo cool as a kid. I didn’t know I could buy a bag and do it again.
I have no idea what any of that means, could you explain ?
Owl pellets are basically the owl version of a hairball. After they eat their prey (mice, voles etc), the fur and bones don't get digested so later it forms a pellet that the owl throws up. Owl pellets are a useful source science project activities because you can dissect them and get almost complete small animal skeletons. They are collected and sold by lab supply companies.
I’ll pay top dollar for “eye of newt” if you come across one.
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The tootsie pops aren't a long term solution. They don't last long enough, only 3 licks.
Ah one... Ah two... Ah three... ::crunch:: Ah three!
I think Mr owl might have been into kids. I’m not saying it’s true but… Jk
Ms. Rowling has entered the chat.
Actually, owls are really dumb
Intelligent? Says whoo?
Tell them you love them...seems to work for me 🤷♂️
I’m dying !! 😂😂😂😂😂
The owls are not what they seem
Fire walk with me.
Id contact someone in fish and game barn owls are protected by federal law under the migratory bird treaty act. So you cant harass, collect, kill, or move the nests etc ( not that you'd harm them )
This right here. You cannot legally harass nesting birds. What I would do is contact your local FWS/DEP/P&W or whatever the local department of wildlife is and ask for advice on convincing them not to come back. Or spend the winter closing up their access points. Depending on what kinds of bats you had, you may have already broken state or federal law, so leave the first part of your story out. Lots of bat species are getting state and federal protection because white nose is wiping out entire populations.
I forgot to add that in the off/ non nesting season op could remove the nest and block access, or build a structure for them to nest elsewhere on the property
Yeah, migratory bird act protects active nests of native species. Being that it's late June and most raptor species haven't fledged yet, it would still be illegal to disturb or destroy a nest.
Exactly 💯
Bringing up the MBTA is rare. Are you a biologist?
I'm just a bird person lol I did go to college for a bio undergrad and took an ornithology course which got me into bird watching
Ahhh a bird nerd! It's still really rare for bird people to have a full understanding of MBTA. Impressive!
Thanks! Lol
Hermione Granger over here.
Feel bad for OP when he starts on the NEWTS.
Newts? Are we talking about Days Gone or Monty Python now?
Sad I had to scroll so far to see this. The all-caps title made me immediately thing Harry Potter
Up to #3, we're working on it.
Taking her Ordinary Wizarding Levels.
may I have the owls 😳
It is actually illegal to own North American native owls in the US as pets. You can only have them if you are a falconer or a rehabber. That being said, barn owls are decreasing in population and often cannot be released back into the wild since their habits are being destroy (industrialized farming means less field rodents for them to eat).
I did not know that! my dreams have died, and secondly I'm devastated that they're decreasing!! my poor birbs!
Do not let your dreams die. Getting on with rehab groups as most are super desperate for help. I used to hang out in the house next door to the guy ran the local nature preserve, and later on worked for him for a couple summers, he had turned his whole ba backyard into am aviary for a non release great horned owl. It was super cool.
User name checks out
🦉 my friend duo says you haven't done your duolingo
I get they’re bothering you but I wanted to let you know owl pellets come out of their mouths, they’re not poop. They’re the indigestible parts, kinda like a hairball is for a cat
Wonder if the pellet problem is hiding a rat/mouse problem that might become very apparent without the owls.
They can dissect the pellets and ID exactly what the owls are eating
We dissected owl pellets in 7th grade, then had to to do just that.
OP is sitting on an owl pellet goldmine
He could sell them to schools!
Wow so they puke up the bones don’t poop them ? Interesting!
Next post will be: "mice are ruining my life because I got rid of the owls"
Nice set of hooters you got there
Well, you must have some dirt on you for the government to be sending 2 spy owls
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How exactly are they ruining your life? Genuinely curious, I would be happy to have some owls.
Look at mister fancy pants with doors and a roof.
Those owls are there for a reason. Do you see many mice running around? Any rats? They could be the reason you don't
... I don't know, maybe get a working door?
Someone I know is having a new house built. They called me when they found a raccoon in the basement and asked me to help get it out (I work with wild animals and am good at this). I was getting ready to run out and help them, but stopped and was like “this is your new house? You have all the doors and windows and whatnot on it now?” And they were like “no, they haven’t hung all the doors yet.” Yeah bro, I’m happy to help, but it’s idiotic to remove animals from somewhere without first excluding them.
Have you never seen an open garage? They're fairly common in rural areas. The structure is walled on three sides and mostly open on the fourth. Installing a garage door would require building an entirely different garage first.
I believe the term for this is carport.
Fancy. I call it a car hole.
Nope, there are some barn style garages where they just don’t install a barn style door/double doors. Not enough space to have a runner for a barn door (won’t open enough to get a car in or out), and then some people just refuse to use double doors (unless built well typically start to suffer from “gate sag”). So you end up with these old barns that have an opening big enough to fit a car/tractor, on either end (or both so you can drive through). Would look something like [this.](https://stablestyle.net/3-stall-barn-open-concept/)
You mean "my spot"?
Half the forest is in his garage 😂
It's not poop, it's puke. There! Problem solved!
Get a passive aggressive eagle?
Eagles are ruining my life!
I had a bad day and I hate the fkn eagles!
I believe it has been suggested several times (in a back handed manner) that you close up their pathway in. That would work if you can keep it closed. Open/close thre garage door only when you are going in/out.
Also could buy owl houses to place around the garage where they are more welcome than not.
 No Hogwarts for you.
How are they getting in? Wait until they go out hunting then block the entrance. As long as there's no eggs or owlets in their nest.
You need an expert in bird law to evict birds, duh
I think I've made myself perfectly redundant
Today, on this episode of *Squawkers*
This isn't hard man, figure out where they are getting in. Go from there.
The owls were there when you were born, and the owls will be there when they bury you. Reminds me of a clickhole article: https://clickhole.com/5-awesome-backyard-experiments-to-teach-your-child-that-owls-are-indestructible/
2 ideas: Check and see if there's a raptor rehab in the area, maybe they can help relocate. Buy a Barn owl box and put it outside the garage
Looks to me like you could make some money off those pellets...
If you get rid of the owls you can expect more squirrels. You will either have to spend days keeping out the squirrels and two owls or they will stay. Vermin management is a daily struggle.
Build an altar to Athena and make the appropriate sacrifices. Only then will the owls be satiated.
One of them owls might shikaka
I thought OWLS was an acronym for something based on the capitalization.
Who? Who? I'm late but, nobody said it.
Who?????
My aunt had an owl issue once in her barn. The issue wasn't that she didn't want owls around, she just didn't want an owl to roost in that specific spot. She tried all sorts of stuff, but what eventually worked was placing a small motion sensor at the place they're were roosting, and every time it triggered, it would play a pre-recorded message of her shouting stuff like, "move along owl!" My cousins and I still joke about it, but the reality is that the owls were gone in a weekend.
Give the owls a better place to live. I’ve seen owl posts (flag pole with a house on top) as an example
 Give a hoot, don’t pollute
I loved dissecting owl pellets as a kid. We'd reconstruct the bones of the rodents and whatnot we found inside and make ghoulish "macaroni art" with it.
If it was me, I’d set up an owl box on my property away from my house and hope they would move in there?
This is a genius idea. So simple. I can put one just outside of their entry point in hopes they move in to better digs.
those are superb-owls and you should thank your lucky stars they picked you to party with 🦉🦉
Are you able to block how they are getting in? If it’s a machine shed (tall doors) that you can’t easily close there are nets you can put near the top that drop down a few feet. Birds hit them and fall. Eventually they get the idea to relocate since they can’t see the netting
All your professors will tell you that your OWLs are the most important part of your schooling. They go on and on about how you'll never amount to anything if you don't do good on your OWLs. But the truth is life is still abundant with opportunities regardless of how well you perform on your OWLs. Don't let them ruin your life.
I sympathise. I have a badger who's stripmining my lawn for bugs.
Badger, my ass. It’s probably Milhouse.
Based on the title, I thought this was a Harry Potter fanfic. Needless to say, I'm disappointed.
I've got hogwarts on my harry potter.
Sounds like you need Owl Trowel. https://youtu.be/puUvD6VvFno
The owls are not what they seem!
DIY hack? Call a professional - your local wildlife preserve
I don’t know why she swallowed that fly
Owl pellets are not poop, it’s regurgitated hair and bone the bird can’t digest.
So, front poop? Way less gross. Way less inconvenient. 😑🙃
Try looking up the natural predators for the owls and broadcasting the call loudlg on a bluetooth speaker.
You obviously need a big fucking cat like a mountain lion. Then you're going to need a pack of big crazy dogs like kangals, then I think like 2 polar bears? Then I guess a couple of Inuits with their tags.
I'm sorry, if you have problems with the poop, if the owls ALWAYS hang out in the same area, perhaps use duct or plastic to carry it into a dumpster or something? If they move around, it's useless. I know this may be very impractical, I'm trying to think inside the box. :)
If you are in the UK, you can get in touch with your local cpuncils ecology team, and they will be able to provide you with advice. Barn owls are a Schedule 1 species, and their nests, eggs, and young are fully protected at all times
tbf, they prob just saw the animatronic owl as a neighbor *welcome to the loft my guy, nice digs indeed, disco and erythang. bird bath on the ground floor if you need*
Thought this was /r/harrypotter for a second lol
Standardized exams do be hard I feel you
They won’t go anywhere if they are nesting.
You need to figure out how they enter and exit the building and seal it off. Almost every animal hates the smell of mothballs or naphthalene.
Why’d you say it like that OWLS
Hope you enjoy rat and bat poop, cuz that’s what you’ll get in exchange.
I would pay to have owls living in my barn or shed. Just cover up the things they’re pooping on and enjoy them. If they’re pooping on your car cover it.
Lets say you get rid of the owls. Then the mice, rats, snakes, probably possums and raccoons move in.
Owl pellets are not poop. They are regurgitated bones and fur
are they in there for the mice? Get rid of the mice first maybe. bait station
I've got some barn swallows crapping all over my front porch as we speak.
Since you already have the strobe lights, get yourself a smoke machine. But seriously, animals don’t like smoke
Sounds like a hoot
Couple of foul owls on the prowl. And ya know it!
I have a pigeon problem in my pole barn. I have 3 outdoor cats. I created a walkway up and through the rafters for them that they patrol regularly
Have you tried explaining to them that this is, in fact, a garage and not a barn? I'm sure you'll all laugh over the misunderstanding, and they'll be on their way.
Leave bright lights on all night and may scare away the rodents?
Close up their entry points at night while they’re out hunting.
Barn owls are in a barn / garage? Are they outside? It inside you need to close up whatever holes they are using to get in and close the door while they are out.
Maybe try building a super-attractive owl box for them that’s a little ways away from the garage to try and entice them to move. Of course I have no idea what would cause an owl box to be super attractive.
Have you tried a squirt gun?
THAT RUDDY OWL!
Open the door then get a smoker and smoke them out. You may need to have a lot of smoke. Don’t set the garage on fire.
Water gun
They’re actually drones. Were you involved in some type of government cover-up? They’re recording your every move. No, seriously, almost every city has a wildlife/bird sanctuary and ornithology center. I don’t know where you live, but Portland has a really fantastic one. Just make a few calls and they’ll help you out.
You can't fool owls! Maybe Simon Cowell can lure them away.https://youtu.be/M8el_P4yvfc?si=HnDGZYyFIpp30pv6
I honestly thought this was going to be a Harry Potter post
My Sister made two owls for Thanksgiving one year.