ML647464342
Bidragsyter
Dato
Lokalitet
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 1
- Lyder
- Sang
- Lydavspilling
- Playback used
Kommentarer
See checklist notes for details. Note: On all of the calls following the distant bird's solo long hoot, the near bird's hooting is preceded by a soft and brief moaning hoot. That "introductory" note becomes more temporally distinct from the main call as the recording progresses. I have never heard such an intro note associated with the subsequent call before. There is perhaps a chance that the "introductory" note was from a second bird (which if there, must've been perched almost adjacent to the main target because the sounds came from exactly the same direction). Under that scenario, the soft brief hoot would seem to have been a trigger for the main hoot, almost in a duet fashion (somewhat analogous to Australian whipbirds). Finally, if there were actually two birds "duetting" throughout, then there were a total of three birds present, because the bird giving the solo long hoot was too far away to have reached the side of the main bird I was recording by the time I heard the first distinct introductory note.
Observasjonsdetaljer
I began my final stop (the intersection of Old Grade and Ehrman Roads) at 2346. When I started playing the BAOW recordings at the 10-minute mark, I was holding my phone up over my head as I was broadcasting the BAOW "song" recordings, while simultaneously recording with Google Pixel Recorder. Just as the final call of the the third bout was ending, I heard a distant solo long hoot west of the road (apparently not picked up on my recording). I then heard steady wingbeats approaching very close by to the east, and as I ducked, I felt the air of the wingbeats on my face. I then quickly stepped toward the car to return my phone to my makeshift phone holder on the hood. During that transition, the second owl began calling from the evergreens about 30 m NE of me with a "who cooks for you? who cooks for you all?" call. Eleven seconds later, my watch gave the hourly chime, signifying midnight, so I detected the two owls literally seconds before the end of the final minute of count week. According to my phone, however, I first heard the owl with 30-90 seconds remaining on 23 December. Either way, it was a close call. The owl continued calling for a total of 8 minutes (i.e., well after midnight) before falling silent. A few items of note. 1) I'm well aware that owl flight is generally thought of as "silent" so I was somewhat surprised when I heard and then felt the wingbeats at extremely close range. 2) The attached recording was cropped to begin at the moment the final AAB recording ended. Over the first 7 seconds, the recording captures both me as I replace my recorder on the car hood and the first of the second owl's calls. 3) At the 18-sec mark you can hear my watch's midnight chime. 4) After the second "who cooks for you" call of the close bird, you can hear a solo long hoot from the second bird at the 33-sec mark. 5) After that solo long hoot, the near bird no longer gave "who cooks for you" calls, but rather series of steady hoots ending with "y'all."
Teknisk informasjon
- Opptaker
- Google Pixel Recorder
- Mikrofon
- Tilbehør
- Original file size
- 3.03 MB