Migratory.
Migratory birds fly south from cold and north from warm weather. When a severe cyclone is near, they become puzzled and fly in circles, dart in the air and can be easily decoyed. (Observer on North Carolina coast.)
Owls.
Owls hooting indicate rain.
If owls scream in foul weather, it will change to fair.
If owls hoot at night, expect fair weather.
The various omens which vulgar credulity has attached to the hooting and screaming of this bird deserve particular attention. When an owl hoots or screeches, sitting on the top of a house or by the side of a window, it is said to foretell death. The fact seems to be this: The owl, as Virgil justly observes, is more noisy at the change of weather, and as it often happens that patients with lingering diseases die at the change of weather so the owl seems, by a mistaken association of ideas, to forebode the calamity. Both the screech owl and the howlet seem to be alluded to among the harmful fowls in Spencer’s Fairy Queen.
Screech Owl.
A screeching owl indicates cold or storm.
Parrots.