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Instead the barn owl hisses, grunts, shrieks, and screams. Its habit of nesting in abandoned buildings, together with its rasping shriek, probably accounts for many a tale of haunted houses.

Mr Owl always mounted Mrs Owl before he left. Busy with the owlets, she took little notice. One evening, Mr Owl was back in the roost just seconds after he’d flown away.