Subject: [Tweeters] Owl call last night, Lincoln Park
Date: Nov 24 16:49:21 2010
From: johntubbs at comcast.net - johntubbs at comcast.net




Not to complicate this enlightening discussion too much, but if the flatted 3rd and flatted 7th are added, it is a little-known subspecies called the Blues Bard Owl.



John Tubbs

Snoqualmie, WA

johntubbs at comcast.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Trileigh Tucker" <TRI at seattleu.edu>
To: "JChristian Kessler" <1northraven at gmail.com>, tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 4:30:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Owl call last night, Lincoln Park

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






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:





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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