I don't believe I have until this morning at about 1AM. It was quiet in my bedroom and I was getting back to sleep and I could hear what I believe were owls hooting......so I did some research and found this hooting info. Owls often call out in the night over territorial disputes. Owls will also hoot at night if they are attacking another creature or defending themselves. However, given that owls are stealthy and capable predators, it is not often that you will hear them hooting while defending themselves or attacking another creature. More reasons: https://birdfact.com/articles/why-do-owls-hoot
We have had a family of Barred Owls in the neighborhood for a while and hear them quite frequently. Once though, when I heard a distinctive hooting sound during the night, I got up and saw a Great Horned Owl, sitting on the deck railing, probably only 3 feet from the window. He flew when I cracked open the blinds to look. Magnificent creature.
We have a lot of owls here. We even had a Saw-whet owl reside inside the barn for a while. https://i.postimg.cc/vB6jsCrM/Owl-in-milk-parlor-resized.jpg
We also have a lot of owls; our neighborhood backs up to a wooded area and we hear (and see) them quite often.
The house we lived in in Parker, Colorado was next to a small woods. The first time we heard the two Woods Owls was at 2AM one morning. Our upstairs bedroom window faced the back of the house of our neighbor behind us. One own was perched on one end of the roof and another on the other end. Since I had to get up at 5:15AM to get ready for work, I had to do something. I went downstairs and got our large battery-operated boat light. Went outside and turned the light on while I was holding it in the sky above the house. Brought the light down right to one of the owls. It took off and the other followed. This happened a few times while living in the house. Never pointed the beam of light at the house, only in the sky and brought it down to where one of the owls were sitting.
I hear them every night behind our house. There is a conservation area back there and they hoot and answer all night long. It's a lovely sound. Sometimes one moves into our front yard and hoots for a while. Once when we were camping, we had a nest of baby owls in a dead tree in the campsite. They sounded just like a litter of puppies. The ranger told me that the mother owl had quit feeding them to force them to hunt for themselves and they were very hungry and VERY unhappy. Sometimes a parent has to do what a parent has to do. Otherwise, they'll be living in your basement playing video games for the rest of their lives while you feed them....LOL. One year, I had a nest of screech owls in a dead palm tree in my back yard. There were three babies in the nest. When I'd go out in the yard, all three of them would stick their heads out of the hole and look at me. They were the cutest tiny little things you'd ever seen. Sorry, babies, I have no dead mice for you.
I have a thread here somewhere of the family of Barred Owls that used to visit a tree by my deck every afternoon, like clockwork. I've heard them in the woods a number of times, even at mid-afternoon. I've posted this pic before of a juvenile that landed on the deck railing about 3' from me: I also had a Great Horned Owl around here that would perch in a tree by my living room window around 10PM and let out a high-volume HOOT! that would make me jump out of my skin. I saw a special on birds once, and part of it was discussing their feather structure and how it plays a role in each of their lives. They set up an experiment with a long row of sensitive microphones between the bird's perch and the lure of food at the other end. One-by-one each species would fly over the microphones to get to the food, and the technicians would play back the sounds made by the wings. Then it was the owl's turn. It flew over the microphones, and it was as though the equipment had a failure. There was no perceptible sound made.
It seems, some years there are several around here and this year there are none. Last year we had a nest with babies near the house (we live in a woods) but this year there were hawks nesting. Maybe why the owls moved. We have a few varieties between house and farm. When they call, my daughter would call back (she is very good at bird calls) This made them call more. Probably to ascertain territory.
I've lived here for 13 years. I would go several years without hearing a call from any owl. Conversely, my "neighbors" down this right-of-way said they have had one calling outside of their bedroom window for as long as they can remember. Maybe it's because I have such a large open field and there are tons of hawks here. Regarding owls calling back: I'm not familiar with most species, but the barred owls are very curious, as witnessed by that juvenile flying over to check me out. If you hear a barred owl call and you call back, they are likely to fly over to check you out.
Years ago we had a small Yorkie named Spike. We had to use caution when letting him out into the back yard because a big owl would sit up in the neighbor's pine tree and watch his every move. Spike weighed about 6 pounds and we were afraid the owl would try to carry him off.
Never know the bird world could make some stops and take a bath in the great Pacific just down the road from my place,,,,.
I had to go look. If the owl is of a larger species (Great Horned Owl is the one routinely mentioned), and other food sources are scarce, they will attack cats and small dogs. Most at risk of being killed & eaten are small cats and kittens. Adult cats and small dogs might get injured, but they are not likely to be killed or carted off.
oh about 40 yrs ago I went to a cousin's wedding in FL in June and came back to CA full of bites...I have NOT had one since here in CA and West in general.