use of the minor 3rd is the clue -- its a Bard Owl, in the ancient Saxon
tradition of singing sagas of the coming solstice.

Chris Kessler

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Tucker, Trileigh <TRI at seattleu.edu> wrote:

> 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
> * * * * * * *
> Trileigh Tucker
> Lincoln Park, West Seattl
>
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