[TN-Bird] [Fwd: Re: life/yard bird?]
- From: Raincrow <raincrow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: TNbird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:13:48 -0500
Hi Mark and others who have sent emails directly to my home e-dress:
This bird was about 100 ft uphill from what might be as much as ~0.5 sq.
mi. of pastureland. It perched maybe 3-4 trees back into my quite open
woods, and called for only 10 min or so fm that spot, so the habitat is
right enough. Also, I've lived w/ Great-horneds, Barreds, and Screech
owls for 25 years (along with the occasional Barn and Saw-Whet at my
Knoxville house), and heard some "classic" Long-eared calls perhaps 1/2
mi from my house just the other night. This was a DIFFERENT bird
altogether. I surfed for over an hour before I found a Manitoba website
with a dead-ringer audio clip of the hearty hoo-hoo-hooing that so
impressed my cats and me. Various European websites refer to it as a
"Voo-hoo-hoo-hoo" or "Boo-boo-boo-boo" (my ear heard more of a V than a
B). Check out http://www.naturenorth.com/summer/sound/Owlsnd6.html
--- it requires ShockWave. The daytime photo at this same site shows
clearly why I could see very light underwing and sides as the bird flew
through the woods.
So far, I haven't found a clip of the "low-moaning-cat" noises it also
made. And no hint of this bird since that night, unfortunately; just a
little mark in my yard-bird database.
Thanks, everyone, for your insights.
Liz Singley
Kingston TN
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Subject: Re: [TN-Bird] life/yard bird?
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 08:16:49 -0600
From: mgreene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: raincrow@xxxxxxxxxxx
Liz,
It sounds more like a Long-eared Owl than it does a Short-eared although
it doesn't sound totally like either one. I've never heard a
Short-eared give a hoo-hoo or hoot call as they usually just give a bark
or a double bark call. Long-eared Owls have a pretty extensive vocal
repertoire which ranges from a long, drawn out "hoooooooooo" to a
cat-like shriek. Short-eared Owls are also generally found in more open
areas like tall grassy fields, etc. They use the same habitat as
Northern Harriers do to hunt.
Also Great Horned Owls, especially young birds, have a wide range of
varied calls and I have often been fooled by them.
Mark Greene
Trenton, TN
Raincrow <raincrow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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03/07/04 10:12 AM Subject: [TN-Bird]
Please respond to raincrow life/yard bird?
I had what must have been a short-eared owl calling about 70 feet up in
my woods last night around 1 a.m.! My cats are old hands around barred,
great-horned, and screech owls -- all regulars in this 'hood -- but they
hit the top rail of the deck like a precision drill team, eyes and ears
nervously riveted on the woods when this stranger began calling. I saw
the bird fly briefly in bright moonlight, and my impression was of pale
underwing and side, expected size range for short-eared as best I could
tell. It (he?) didn't have the broad vocal repertoire or rich, chesty
timbre of a barred owl, but certainly had some respectable hoo-hoo-hoos
and a couple of barks, one that fooled me for an instant into thinking
that a small dog had wandered onto my property, and a lower-pitched one
reminding me of a tiny buck snorting in the woods, in repeats of 3-5.
If this doesn't sound like a short-eared owl to you, please let me know
what you think it might be. Thanks.
Liz Singley
Kingston TN
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