[va-bird] Burrowing Owl call

[Birdconsv@xxxxxxx]

It's been a long time since I heard one, so I can't say that I'm very 
familiar with the call of this species, but I can say that Eastern Screech-Owls 
can 
make some very strange sounds that don't come even close to their classic trill 
or bouncing-ball calls. At our place in Shenandoah County, where they are 
fairly common, we have heard them scream like a wildcat and make a sort of 
growling call. They also use an uncommon call when they have young out of the 
nest. 
In each of these cases, we saw the birds, so we know they were screech-owls.  
Even if a Burrowing Owl were to appear here, it seems unlikely that it would 
frequent a woodland area instead of an open place.  Forty years ago, while 
quail hunting with my friends in southern Illinois we flushed (and shot 
thinking 
it was a Bobwhite) a Burrowing Owl, but that's still a long way west of eastern 
Virginia.
Dave Davis 
Arlington


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