Hello Tweets,

Around 10:00 last night we were startled to hear an owl call from apparently right outside our bedroom window, close to Lincoln Park. The call went on for about 10 minutes while I scrambled around for my recorder, ending just before I got the equipment to work. So I'll have to describe it verbally: whoo, whoo, who-WHOOO, with the last WHOOO (1) up a minor third from the first whoos, and (2) descending down to the first pitch in a kind of tremolo. The first whoo had sort of a click just beforehand, and the "who" just before the last WHOOO had a little grace note in front of it.

If this was a Barred Owl, it was definitely not the regular "who cooks for you" call that I've previously heard once outside my window. I checked the other Washington owl calls on iBird and this sounded like none of them. My best guess is Barred Owl doing a variation on its regular theme. Any other hypotheses?

Good birding,
Trileigh
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Trileigh Tucker
Lincoln Park, West Seattl