hey thanks. your bouncing ball description sounds right.
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>From: Kelly Cassidy[SMTP:kelly at salmo.cqs.washington.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 1997 11:01 AM
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: Re: FW: owls
>
>My bet is Western Screech. They sound like a bouncing ball, with the
>hoos increasing in frequency at the end of the "song".
>
>
>On Tue, 21 Oct 1997,
>Karen Behm wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> >What owls might I have heard the last two early AM's on Squak Mtn? There
>>are
>> >at least 2, maybe 3 or 4.
>> >
>> >This area they are in is 2nd growth ceder and doug fir, very forested and
>> >close to Squak Mtn. State Park.
>> >
>> >The call seemed to be a hoo hoo hoo hoo with a sort of trill at the end.
>> >
>> >Karen
>> >Issaquah
>> >
>>
>
>Kelly Cassidy -- Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
>Box 357980, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195
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