Birds of a Feather

“My wife, Kim, was telling Fred’s wife, Wendy, about my owl watching and described how I got the birds to hoot back. She said: That’s funny, that’s just what Fred has been doing’,” said Neil Simmons. Fred and Wendy are his neighbor in Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England. “Then the penny dropped. I felt such a twit when I found out.” Fred and Neil had spent a year hooting to each other from their gardens every night, each thinking the other was a real owl. “I couldn’t resist hooting at the owls. I was absolutely delighted when they hooted back,” Fred Cornes said. “I never realized that I was fooling my neighbor who was fooling me.” (UPI) ...There they go, hooting themselves in the foot again.