This is a long shot, but how baout Western Screech Owl?



On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Kelly McAllister
<mcallisters4 at comcast.net>wrote:

> I?m puzzled. I live fairly close to this athletic complex and have spent
> plenty of time in the general vicinity. I can?t think of anything likely to
> be there, active at night, and sounding like the winnowing of snipe.
> Killdeer frequent baseball fields, fly around in the lights at night, and
> call. However, they really don?t sound like winnowing snipe.
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> Kelly McAllister
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> *From:* tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu [mailto:
> tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] *On Behalf Of *D. Lewis
> *Sent:* Friday, March 04, 2011 4:04 PM
> *To:* tweeters at u.washington.edu
> *Subject:* [Tweeters] Regional Athletic Complex in Lacey
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> I had a request from someone in Lacy that was hearing a bird call and they
> are at this sports complex. This is their description:
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> I've been wondering about the strange sounds I'm hearing at work for a
> while now. Listening to clips of bird sounds, the winnowing sound of the
> Wilson's Snipe seems to be a good match, but all the species descriptions
> I've read say this is only heard in the spring. They also say it's a
> wetland sound and there might be some surrounding wetlands I don't know
> about, but I'm definately not super close to water. I work at a ball park
> and I hear the sound at dusk. I don't recall ever hearing it in the spring
> or summer but it's been going on through January and February. I have also
> seen something flying around the field lights, not a lot but just making a
> pass every so often. I kind of figured what I'm seeing and what I'm hearing
> are one in the same but I haven't gotten a good look at it. I'd really like
> to find out what's out there, so if anyone has ideas, please let me know!
> It's a beautiful but haunting "woo woo woo woo" sound, just the perfect
> creepy thing to hear at dusk.
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> Has anyone been birding in that area that could give them a best guess?
> I'll forward any guessed back to them - thanks
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> D. Lewis
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> North Bend
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> debsstuff at comcastdot net
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