Hi tweets,
I am sure we have a Northern Saw-Whet and not a Pigmy Owl here in the outskirts of Renton. But of course we have not seen him.

I have a Petersons CD that I check bird calls and songs and this CD has almost an identical call for those two owls so it was confusing. I got on line and found some sites with owl calls by putting "Northern Saw-Whet Owl Call" and "Northern Pigmy Owl Call" in the search box on Google. This shows the Pigmy owl call as much slower than the Saw-Whet. Our owl call is two toots per second or 100-120 per minute.

We tried calling him in but he seemed to fly farther away when we made the call. We may have scared him off?
Nancy Lander
unincorporated King County near Renton
nelrjb at comcast.net