[TN-Bird] BaRRRRRd Owl
- From: James Brooks <comeback@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Tenn Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 08:48:40 -0500
Angelia Lewis and I passed under a Barred Owl on a utility wire on Old
Boone's Creek Road, Jonesborough about 5 p.m. while en route to the
Kingsport Symphony's Scottish Program. All you Celts oot there should
kna that Jan. 25 is the birthday of Bobby Burns, Bard for all time of
Scotland.
I said, "I don't care if you do have dinner reservations for 5:30, I'm
going back for a better look," turned around, stopped in the road with
the flashers on, pulled out my binoculars which are ever at hand, and
had wonderful looks at him in good light, went back past, turned again
in a driveway almost under him and had another look before proceding on
to Kingsport.
It was the first Barred Owl I've seen in East Tennessee at this low an
elevation (about 1,500-1,800 above MSL). He was close enough to my house
that I should have heard him asking who was cooking for whom in the
diurnal hours, but I've na heard him on this end of the ridge.
When we returned after an evening of symphonic and Celtic music,
including a piper playing with a symphony and not sounding too bloody
awful (my usual assesment of the pipes) the unmated male Great Horned
Owl who sounds like he's on a cell phone that is breaking up, was
calling on down the ridge. Apparently no female gives a hoot for his now
lonely variant call.
Brooks' rule: Any Barred Owl seen on Bobby Burns' birthday automatically
becomes a Bard owl, pronounced with a Scottish burr, e.g. BaRRRd Owl.
Jennisfer Wren was fond of saying, sometimes to excess, that it's a good
day any time you see an owl, and so i' twas.
James Brooks
Malone Hollow
Jonesborough, TN
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