ML604546301
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Juvenile, Unknown sex - 3
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
At my second stop (0.5 miles N of Hwy 63), three juvenile barred owls were giving hissing squeals throughout the 10-minute stop. I was able to confirm three individuals because a) at one point I had repeated calls from three different directions, and b) previously, two responded to my saw-whet owl tooting by sequentially flying from where I'd first heard them east of me to closer perches west of me (visible as they crossed in front of the star-filled sky above me), while a third individual continued to call to the east. This cut is from the final 2 minutes at the stop, after I had given three bouts of northern saw-whet owl song. First one juvenile owl and then a second flew toward me once I started tooting; this cut is from after my final bout. The calls on this cut are dominated by high frequency hissing, quite unlike the calls on the previous cut which were dominated by relatively low frequency energy, with the "squeal" element of the call very conspicuous. At the 35 sec mark of this cut, after a hiss, there is a brief call--"oom-pah, oom-pah"--which came from the same direction as the owls I was recording. The call certainly had a "barred owl" quality to it, but if it was indeed that species, the call was one I was completely unfamiliar with.
Observation details
At the second stop (0.5), three juvenile barred owls were giving hissing squeals throughout the 10-minute stop. I was able to confirm three individuals because a) at one point I had repeated calls from three different directions, and b) previously, two responded to my saw-whet owl tooting by sequentially flying from where I'd first heard them east of me to closer perches west of me (visible as they crossed in front of the star-filled sky above me), while a third individual continued to call to the east. During the first 5 minutes at the fourth stop (1.3), a barred owl gave 7 "who cooks for you" singlets quite a ways to the SW of me. Then, during the 5th minute, a different bird gave a wail-n-hoot call much closer and to the NE (the original owl was heard both before and after this individual). The call included (atypically) a double introductory wail (with the first wail being louder and more "robust"), with a double series of muffled hoots following. The second series of hoots was considerably louder than the first. This is the first wail-n-hoot call I've heard for months (since late winter, I believe).
Technical information
- Recorder
- Google Pixel smart phone
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 773.04 KB