[texbirds] Re: Mystery Owl? in Marfa on Sunday
- From: Dale Ohl <lsdolls@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "mljt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mljt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 06:15:39 -0500
This is weird because Sunday evening about 7 p.m. I was on the west side of
Alpine watching a Prairie Falcon and heard distinctly an Eastern Screech Owl
call. I was so surprised - I waited to see if it called again which it didn't
or I couldn't hear it. I was surrounded by private property so couldn't try to
find it. Maybe it was the same one just a little further east, heading home!
Dale Ohl
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> On May 26, 2014, at 11:28 PM, "Tillman, Jane F" <mljt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Had a great west Texas trip with TOS, and while picnicking in Marfa around
> 1:00 p.m. Sunday, in the Travis Self Memorial Park, heard a very odd sound
> which my husband and I finally traced to a large deciduous tree behind a home
> in the 200 block of East Oak Street (2 houses away from a car wash if you go
> looking for it). I believe the address was 209.
>
> It sounded very much like an Eastern Screech Owl, and vocalized frequently
> while we sat in the park and then continued when we went to track it down
> about 1:30. It responded to playback of an Eastern Screech Owl.
>
> It did not sound like the Elf Owl that vocalized in the Davis Mountains State
> Park the four nights we camped there, nor does it sound like the recordings
> that I am familiar with of Western Screech Owl. I can't explain why this bird
> was vocalizing so much in bright sunshine.
>
> I did make a few sound recordings on my iPhone 3 that I am still figuring out
> how to share-one captures part of a descending whinny, but if you are
> interested, I can send them to your cell phone. Maybe it is not an owl at all?
>
> Great highlights of west Texas in addition to the west Texas specialties we
> saw and heard: the Rose-breasted Grosbeak at the Davis Mountains State Park,
> the singing Swainson's Thrush in the riparian area below the State Park on
> the way to Ft. Davis, and another Swainson's Thrush singing at Balmorhea
> State Park today by the fruiting mulberry trees in front of the San Solomon
> Court.
>
> Jane Tillman
> Austin
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