This channel is what I actually give thanks for this weekend!
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Well I appreciate that. I hope I can continue to live up to the standard that's been set!
Looks good! I think Sooty v Great Horned should be interesting.
And also, Go Screechies!
Sooty vs GHO is the opener that's gonna break my heart either way. That immediately caught my eye and got a nooooooooo 😭 out of me.
Screech has a fighting chance, and I wouldn't be shocked to see Screech vs the champ Saw Whet.
I rally behind the fish owls, let's go!!!
You've got 3 of the 4 of them, so the odds work in your favor!
COME ON GREAT HORNED OWL WOOOOOOO
GHO is a timeless beauty. It's what my mind defaults to when I hear the word owl. What a combo of beauty and power!
I saw TWO of them two nights ago! Hooting that amazing call to each other. Almsot cried.
It's an amazing sound! I like when they really lean into it and use their whole body to really blast that hoot out there 😀
I'm thrilled you got to see some! As fun as the pics and stories here are, nothing beats the real thing!
As always i am on Team Saw Whet. Go team!
So little, so angry, such a cute owl...
If Saw Whet doesn't win, the whole thing is rigged
Saw Whet is as popular as ever! It's been an amazing champion.
Barn and Spectacled should win their first matchups easily, but I don’t know who-who will win that matchup to advance past the Sweet Sixteen 😰
Mottled did well in the qualifier and BnW was no slouch last season itself.
For myself, I've been a huge Barnie fan this year, and Speccy has done great in the regular postings recently, but one's gotta keep in mind they share this section of the bracket with Snowy. The Snowy fans have to be feeling overdue by now!
Let's fucking Go Ruru!
Morepork for those outside NZ. I was surprised to see it on the list tbh
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Go, Burrowing! Boreal is going to be a tough opening match, but I have a good feeling we'll start strong and go deep in the bracket. Look out; we're coming in hot!
That face is just too cute 🥰
noooo saw whet vs little and the winner vs screech? impossible!!! this is a crime, a farce! stop the steal!
And with Flammy and white faced on the other side of that bracket, the small owls are going to need to rally behind a single candidate (I hope it's Flammy!)
If it isn't challenging by this point, I'm not doing my job right! 😜
there is not much in my life that i loved and hated with this much passion at the same time. i love what you doing and hate you for it. please keep doing what you do, you beautiful human
Trust me, I feel much the same way! 😁
I spend 2 hours a day prepping the 2 posts, with my lede time getting shorter each round, for you to tell me how the one I like best sucks and instead you vote for some obscure owl that is impossible to find pics of for yet another round while I have to bite my tongue on why you so are dead wrong! Then I have to reply to everyone's comments like we're still friends after what you just did to me.
But yet I love Owl of the Year and think it's one of the greatest and most unique things on Lemmy and will gladly say let's do this again next year.
I'm seriously glad you guys have fun with this and look forward to it months ahead of time. It's a real pain in the ass, but it really amplifies the best things about this community. I can tough it out for 2 weeks or so for that. I want you to love your native birds and those around the world and to get you to care about them and their environments. They're awesome creatures, but then again, so are we sometimes!
This is the way I felt about White Face / Shortie / Sooty / Flammy! Too many favs together!
Rooting for the Eurasian Eagle owl, as usual !
Big, bad, yet beautiful! One of my favs.
In my heart, the winner is the Milky Eagle.
But, as usual, I will be voting for all of them.
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Well, it's no surprise GHO is up against a lower-seeded team, the Sootys, because they want to ease into the season and roll up some of those OotY points when it starts to get real later in the bracket.
Personally, I think the Snowy / Barnie matchup later in the season is going to be wild but as they say, don't count your owls before they're updooted.
I expect Snowy and Barn to win their openers, but a Specky vs Barnie, I couldn't confidently pick one over the other this early.
GHO should probably take it over Sooty, but I'm a big Sooty fan, so either way I'm not gonna be in love with the outcome.
Cripes I'm losing my shirt on this bracket. I feel like there should be a superbowl version of formula1dank memes or something.
Of course it could be some shady syndicate manipulating the votes to get their owl to the top.
Right?! Some of these were nuts. Barn, GHO, Burrowing, and Spectacled are out already. White Face was trailing a noob for a solid chunk of time. There have been some big shake ups.
I think overall numbers may be lower than last year, so there are no signs of obvious fowl play.
It's kept my attention in every match. The last 2 years I felt I could pick a good number of winners, but not this year.
I think overall numbers may be lower than last year, so there are no signs of obvious fowl play.
I see what you did there. That’s a hoot!
I'm a witty one 🤡
Woot! Saw Whet in þe opposite bracket from WFS!
I'm calling þis year early for Spectacled.
Speck would make a great spokes owl for us. It has great potential!
Saw Whet and White Face have are going to have a fun run. I think both are going to go far again.
Is it kosher to change þe community avatar regularly? I know a donation goes in þe name of þe winner, but I just realized I don't know if you change it to þe winner each year.
Do you have a way for us to contribute to þe OOTY winnner donation? We have a raptor rescue here run by þe University, but þey seem to focus mostly on ... not-owls. Hawks and eagles, mostly, it seems.
Dragonfly has been happy to do it the last 2 years. We had pretty standard stuff in there originally and someone suggested we change the images as the prize and it was a popular choice. Winner gets the icon, 2nd gets the sidebar banner, and the final 4 get on the community banner.
I encourage you to support your local groups, so that keeps me (or someone pretending to be me) aking you for money, plus they are your wild animals and I think we should all support our local rehabbers. It is tough physical, mental, and often just plain icky work, and nobody gets any public money so all these programs are funded totally by people like us.
We didn't get many owls this year, more hawks, but even for the handful of owls we do get, it costs a couple $ a day to feed them. The larger rodents/chicks they need can be up to $2 each, plus tons of cleaning supplies and medical tools, housing, and the heating cooling bills, it all adds up too quickly. If you are lucky enough to have a local rehab (many places arent served by anyone within a few hours drive in some parts of America) they should be who you go to because they're making sure your community is being served. Most rehabs don't make it more than a year or 2 because it is so time consuming and expensive.
If you do want to donate to the clinic I work at, or just to see where I pitch in: Aark Wildlife
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Got my bracket all filled out! Let’s hope I can get at least one guess right.
I get a ton wrong and do occasionally wonder what the heck you all are thinking picking some over others 😊
Do you dare say who your pick for the winner is?
I’m not off to a very good start :(
The rest of the bracket looks pretty good, I think! Great Horned vs now White Face would be a tough one but not untenable.
Ural over Eagle Owl would be an interesting course of events too. It's the kind of surprise the previous matches show is possible.
I like your picks!
Thank you!
I really thought that Great Horned had a better shot against Barking, so I was hoping the votes would go that way.
It’s still anybody’s game!
Nobody wants to end up facing that sly Scops! I'm hoping people's desire for variety wins out again and we get a different winner, though at least it isn't back to back if it does win. Snowy is a very solid choice.
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