Thanks to Chris, it will now forever be for me the Solstice Saga-Singing Strix Saxon.

--Trileigh

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Trileigh Tucker
Lincoln Park, West Seattle

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From: JChristian Kessler <1northraven at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:25:36 -0800
To: Trileigh Tucker <tri at seattleu.edu>
Cc: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Owl call last night, Lincoln Park

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
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Trileigh Tucker
Lincoln Park, West Seattl

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