This guy is easy to put together.

 The tools required, pliers, gloves, scissors  and hot melt glue.

 Actually the owl was sitting in Home Depot in the garden area

and maybe for decorations outside? And we were fixin to go to Colo.

for the summer months and needed something to do so I told wife

there are a million pine trees up here so the owls feathers will be free.

  She said you lost me on that sentence....Try me one more time..

 

Well, that part of Colo, South Park area had been having a drought 

up there for the previous few years and almost all the pine trees were

cone less and I knew my owl was freezin so we kept driving and looking.

  Finally got him a new suit and that put a smile on his face

 

Awesome work, Jess!

 

Those Home Depot owls are great for keeping other birds away. Crows hate them. 

Lew sometime ago I set the owl on the table on our covered back deck hoping the owl would keep the birds and squirrels away from the dry cat food for we were loosing way too much......It worked for just a very few days then he was no help.

   Then I got another bright idea and attached him on top of a slow moving turn table and that helped a few more days. After a total of two weeks the owl didn't scare anyone.....

 this picture explains better than me telling about it.

 

 I have probably hauled off close to 20 a month when nuts are on the trees in a 15 years time since our trees started producing pecans and then a few more the rest of the year. 

The squirrels also eat the half ripe almonds and the nut is only about 1/3 or the grown size...I should have included Raccoons for they do the same only wait a little longer when they are almost gown but still have not fallen yet.

  If I am lucky CD disks hanging in the trees works for a few days but I have to wait until the animals first strike for two weeks later everyone gets use to the disk shining on them..

   Another trial to keep most of the pecans, About the age of the pecans the squirrels in the picture is holding on to I got a bright idea and with a long ladder I picked much more green pecans than we have ever had, a garage full, and started Pelling them  and didn't know the green husk was acidic but I almost lost my thumb nail about ten years ago and it still has not gone back to normal  even with lots of trial and errors of many different suggestions of a fix.

  Squirrels have this thing of hiding nuts they can't carry back to their nest..but they can't remember or else the have so many places they just forget a few as I have a few areas where six to ten little trees starts growing in a close bunch the next spring..

We have an abundance of squirrels that sorta goes along with the many red and white oak trees. Fortunately the squirrels prefer nesting in the trees than the houses. We have lots of red tailed hawks around and they help keep the squirrel population in check.

I came to hate squirrels.  Neighbor at the last house fed them in about 5 feeders and refilled two or three times a day.   I counted 14 in my 0.2 acre back yard once and the city park two doors down, about 5 acres had 24 nests in it once when I counted.  Across the street was some woods and I'm sure there were many more over there.   She was nuts, no pun intended.