Owl statues on roofs?

[anon53744415]

Owl statues have to be moved every now and then so that the birds they are meant to frighten off don’t lose their fear of them.

I bought one years ago from a yard sale to try and keep birds away from my sat dish. It was plastic, in very rough shape and had only one eye. It was the scariest thing I’d ever seen and it did a pretty good job of keeping the birds away! I don’t have it anymore, I think it finally got so beat up by the sun and elements that I tossed it. But I loved that old one-eyed scary owl.

 

[Sarcelle]

Or even worse… you attract a collection of Owls

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As a side note, rooster used to be on the staples on many churches as a symbol of St. Peter denying Christ three times before the rooster crowed. (Luke 22:34)

A bit of trivia…

A collection or group of owls is called a parliament.

 

[Sarcelle]

Owl’s are active at night. If you saw it during the day, it was a statue.

Depends on the type of owl.

The pueo, the native owl of Hawaii is active during the day.

 

[HollyDolly]

They are there to scare away birds like pigeons or other birds who will poop all over the place etc.No owl cult or pagan connection in that regards.

 

[SteveVH]

They are there to scare away birds like pigeons or other birds who will poop all over the place etc.No owl cult or pagan connection in that regards.

And if you really want to get rid of pigeons or other “pests” the best practice is just to confirm them. You’ll never see them again.

 

[quies]

A moist owlet…

:jrbirdman:

And if you really want to get rid of pigeons or other “pests” the best practice is just to confirm them. You’ll never see them again…

2 funni

 

[House_Harkonnen]

A bit of trivia…

A collection or group of owls is called a parliament.

Do they “want the funk”?

 

[DNemo]

Owl: the owl has a double meaning: 1) the perfidious Jews who, preferring darkness to light, reject Jesus, and 2) (from the Aberdeen Bestiary), “In a mystic sense, the night-owl signifies Christ. Christ loves the darkness of night because he does not want sinners - who are represented by darkness - to die but to be converted and live… The night-owl lives in the cracks in walls, as Christ wished to be born one of the Jewish people, saying: ‘I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel’. But Christ is crushed in the cracks of the walls, because he is killed by the Jews. Christ shuns the light in the sense that he detests and hates vainglory… The night-owl flies at night in search of food, as Christ converts sinners into the body of the Church by preaching. In a moral sense, moreover, the night-owl signifies to us not just any righteous man, but rather one who lives among other men yet hides from their view as much as possible. He flees from the light, in the sense that he does not look for the glory of human praise.”

fisheaters.com/symbols.html

 

[House_Harkonnen]

Owl: the owl has a double meaning: 1) the perfidious Jews who, preferring darkness to light, reject Jesus, and 2) (from the Aberdeen Bestiary), “In a mystic sense, the night-owl signifies Christ. Christ loves the darkness of night because he does not want sinners - who are represented by darkness - to die but to be converted and live… The night-owl lives in the cracks in walls, as Christ wished to be born one of the Jewish people, saying: ‘I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel’. But Christ is crushed in the cracks of the walls, because he is killed by the Jews. Christ shuns the light in the sense that he detests and hates vainglory… The night-owl flies at night in search of food, as Christ converts sinners into the body of the Church by preaching. In a moral sense, moreover, the night-owl signifies to us not just any righteous man, but rather one who lives among other men yet hides from their view as much as possible. He flees from the light, in the sense that he does not look for the glory of human praise.”

fisheaters.com/symbols.html

Seems like a rather strained comparison.

 

[Martin_Pastore]

A bit of trivia…

A collection or group of owls is called a parliament.

Great bit of trivia!..I’m a bit of a trivia buff.
A group of Crows is called a “murder of crows”, “geese are a gaggle”
and I think with pigeons the correct response is…“quick go get the owl”! LOL.
God Bless.
Peace…Martin.

 

[Andromedus]

Around town, I’ve seen a lot of statues of owls on the roofs.

Two on a non-Catholic church, one on a car dealership, one on a house, and one on a Catholic hospital’s security camera (on top of the camera, so the statue was DEFINITELY NOT the camera.) The Catholic hospital is adorned outside and inside with Catholic images and statues and the owl is completely out of place.

What does this image symbolize on these buildings? It just seems out of place and occult-like. They are perched and secured high up on the roofs.

I don’t believe they are placed there out of “superstition” because how would that explain the one on the Catholic hospital’s roof?

Any thoughts?

Peace.

+JMJ+

Don’t worry, it is to scare birds away and not a way to show veneration for the Greek goddess Athena or anything else like that

 

[KathleenGee]

Another symbol of the owl…St. Thomas in his summa stated that our understanding of God can be compared to the eye of a owl next to the sun.

My sister loves birds and got an app where it shows all kinds of birds and you can listen to their singing…St. Francis of Assisi loved the birds so much. Anyway, it turns out we had this white owl out back…and would hear it at night. The city came in and did alot of work out back…and when they did some deep mowing…it looked like hundreds of mouse holes across the field.

I just bought this clock that for every hour you hear the song of a different bird. It has a woodpecker…and you can hear him pecking and then some chirps. Today for the first time, not hearing the white owls out back this summer, my sister heard this owl…oh, do you hear the owl…he is looking for a mate!’

I told her that was from the new clock.

I wonder if they should put owl sounds on roof tops instead of statues…they could be more effective…I was up in the mountains with my friend, we went up at sunrise…and we heard this crow crowing and crowing…and so I crowed back. And then he crowed as if to say, ‘Whaaaaaaat?’

So if I made an impression on a crow, possibly an owl clock on the roof might keep varmints away.