Reply to: RE: Strange call??
Steve, Possibly what you heard was a juvenile great horned owl. They have a call that is a cross between a scream and a whistle. I believe it's a begging call, as adult horned owls feed their young for awhile after they fledge. I've heard strange calls at night out in the shrub-steppe of easter Washington that I've been able to trace to a young horned owl.

Mike Donahue
Seattle

Steve T. Zimmerman wrote:
>I was looking for owls this past Tues. night (between 10 -
>11pm) along Lower Crab Creek road between Smyrna
>and Beverly, when I heard a strange call that sounded
>VERY similar to either a northern hawk owl or boreal
>owl. It obviously was not either of these two owls, as
>Grant Co. is well out of range and habitat for these two
>species, but what could it have been? A modified >screech owl maybe??
>
>On Wed., I was happy to see a flock of about 15 white >pelicans soaring above the south end of Dodson Rd.
>
>Steve Z
>Renton, WA
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