NOTE VIA HIS MESSENGER: last week I had to go on an errand at 4:00 am (02-24-10) - - - when I returned home it was about 5 a.m. In the open area across the street I heard "whoo...whoo....whoo..." It was an owl. The Lord had me write it down.
Never in all my life here have I heard an owl - - - and as many of you who follow the things the Lord shows me and has shown me over the years in the outdoors, never once - not EVER has their been an owl.
TODAY (03-04-10) the Lord showed me the following - - - (please note this gentleman did not inquire of the Lord nor did he mention anything prophetic about the event) :
Strange Owl Groups
Short-Eared Owls By The Hundreds
By Larry Dablemont
3-3-10
I do a radio program on the outdoors most Friday or Saturday mornings from 8:30 to 9:00, on Stockton Radio, 107.7 f.m. It isn't a real sophisticated program, but it covers a pretty good area in a circle from Joplin over to Springfield and up to Lebanon, Lake of the Ozarks, back over to Nevada. We have a good time talking about hunting and fishing and nature and conservation, and folks call in with their comments and questions.
A couple of weeks ago a gentleman from Greenfield, Mo. called in, and identified himself as Faren Fite. I thought for a moment it was some kind of hoax call, because he said he had seen around 200 owls the day before in one small area between Greenfield and Lockwood. He said that on one corral fence there were more than thirty in a group!
When you are a grizzled old outdoor veteran like me, you figure you have seen about everything in the outdoors, and I have never seen more than four or five owls of any species together in the woods ever. So, figuring if I haven't ever seen something, I won't believe it, I sort of dismissed it, until Mr. Fite sent me the photos he had taken. And folks, 'I ain't never seen nothin' like it'. If you are a computer type of person you can go to the website that a Sondra Gray maintains for me, www.larrydablemontoutdoors
.blogspot.com, and you can see many of Mr. Faren Fites fascinating and phenomenal fotos.
There was one photo of 28 owls sitting on a small corral fence, as if they were attending a family reunion. Maybe it was an owl convention of some kind. I don't doubt Mr. Fite at all now. He says along that rural road, there were 200 owls at least, and I wish I could have seen it.
It was a huge group of short-eared owls, a species a little bit like the barred owl in size and appearance. But in habit, they are much different than most of the owls we are accustomed to hearing and seeing in the Ozarks. They have a mean look to them, with ornery-looking bright yellow eyes rather than the brown eyes the barred owl has. And the face is much different, with a pronounced circle of feathers, contrasting white and dark brown, and two little feather patches referred to as "ears", which are much like the horns on a horned owl. Except the ears on a short-eared owl can usually not be seen, they just barely stick up above the forehead most of the time.
They are a species not so much fond of forests; they stick to a more open country like that prairie land along the Missouri/Kansas border, with scrub timber and thickets. And they nest on the ground! Now that is something, when you think about how most all owls nest in hollow trees. The barn owl often nests in old buildings of course, and there is an odd little burrowing owl which nests in holes in the ground.
It is interesting to note that an owl can't build a nest because his beak isn't made for carrying and assembling nest materials. A burrowing owl doesn't dig his burrow, and barn owls don't build a nest at all, they just lay eggs on a barn loft or ledge. Great horned owls and barred owls find a natural hole in a tree and nest there, or sometime use an old hawk nest. But short-eared owls actually nest in the grass on the ground, which they trample down and flatten down, and they actually try to arrange a few sticks in a situation which really doesn't resemble a nest. Knowing that other owls do not carry sticks, that's something I'd like to see.
On this little flattened grass "nest" they will lay anywhere from 3 or 4 to 7 or 8 eggs, depending on the whim of the female owl I suppose. They lay their eggs in May or early June, and the eggs aren't much more than an inch wide, about an inch and half long. That is a very small egg for a bird that eventually will mature at a size of 14 to 16 inches in length and weigh about a pound.
Ornithologists examined the stomach contents of 110 short-eared owls many years back, and found that three-quarters of their diet had been mice of one kind or another, about 10 percent small birds and nearly as many moles and shrews. About 7 percent of the diet appeared to be insects, with the stomach of one owl containing about 30 big grasshoppers. Another odd thing about the short-eared owl is that he is a daytime type of owl, actively hunting during the day more than at night, when most other owls are active.
Mr. Fites pictures are fascinating, and leave you to wonder why so many owls would be concentrated in such a small area together. Who can explain that? Certainly not me.Obviously it is some kind of a migration, perhaps not very far, but likely from a place where food supplies of small ground mammals had been decimated for some reason or another. It is likely a mass movement of a species looking for food. I don't see, anywhere in books I have, any naturalists talking about a migration of owls.
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HIS MESSENGER (CONTINUED):
PROPHETICALLY some of the meanings for owls (in dreams):
PROPHETICALLY - owls: wisdom through earthly means or from above; evil spirit; unclean spirit; night creature; routinely secluded. (Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 34:13-14; Isaiah 43:30; Psalm 102:6; Job 30:29)
As He had me look up the above scriptures – wow –- THIS one is that which He has spoken to me all along (of being my provision, my Provider)...
Isaiah 43:20 (King James Version)
20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
THEN – the Lord showed me the following from a website on biblical topics:
THE Owl
* Varieties of.
Leviticus 11:16-17 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
* Unclean and not to be eaten.
Leviticus 11:13 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Leviticus 11:16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
* DESCRIBED AS
o Mournful in voice.
Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
o Solitary in disposition.
Psalms 102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
o Careful of its young.
Isaiah 34:15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
* Inhabits deserted cities and houses.
Isaiah 13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Isaiah 34:11-14 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
Jeremiah 50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
* Illustrative of mourners.
Psalms 102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
THIS one was also special, pointed out to me by Holy Spirit:
(as the reason I was even out at 4:00 A.M. had to do with something I was to do on behalf of my son):
Careful of its young.
Isaiah 34:15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
STILL STUDYING/LISTENING TO HIS WISDOM as to what He will reveal about hearing the owl….
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