i haven't heard my barred owls this month. eugene, please send your noise
over to my place :)

00 caren
http://www.ParkGallery.org
george davis creek, north fork


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:05, Eugene and Nancy Hunn
<enhunn323 at comcast.net>wrote:

> Richard and tweets,
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> My local Barred Owls have also been going crazy all this past week. Hard to
> get any sleep for the noise.
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> Gene.
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> *From:* tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu [mailto:
> tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] *On Behalf Of *
> Pterodroma at aol.com
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:47 PM
> *To:* tweeters at u.washington.edu
> *Subject:* [Tweeters] Barred Owl call rate - hooting up a storm!
>
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> I've been entertained for the past several weeks now, all winter
> actually, with a pair of Barred Owls hanging out here in the yard and
> ranging over to the evergreen wooded Eastgate Park a couple blocks away.
> All of this week so far, they have really been cranking it out! Sometimes,
> they're chatty and sit in the same tree near one another, one bird calling,
> the other responding, but most often, it's just one bird calling. Off and
> on all night long, every single night & early morning. Even when it was
> raining a few nights ago, they weren't to be deterred. When they are in the
> yard and in the big Douglas Fir next to the house, the calls blast right
> through the walls as to be almost disruptive, ...but I can live with it.
> One just concluded session this evening just outside the window a few feet
> away which lasted about 25 minutes nonstop, I timed and recorded the call
> rate with my watch. For 14 minutes, 23 calls (the familiar
> "who-who, hoo-hoo, who-who-are-you") were logged and the rate was calculated
> at an average of 37.0 seconds between calls. The range was from 24 to 54
> seconds with both of those extremes being very much extremes at both ends of
> the spectrum. Throw both of those out and the call rate would have been
> once every 33.8 seconds.
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>
>
> Richard Rowlett
>
> Bellevue (Eastgate), WA
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