[wisb] Owl Survey-Crawford County.

From: Chris West <little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx>
To: "[Wisb]" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 01:36:24 -0500
Hey everyone, 
Like Malcolm, and I'm sure many others, I took advantage of the nice weather 
and ran my owl route along Hwy 61 near Soldiers Grove.   
Total was 5 Barred Owls and 2 Great Horned Owls. Interestingly, the stops that 
I had expected E Screech-owls at were silent.  Other birds included a few 
flyover Fox Sparrows, a couple Am Woodcock and a few interesting sounds. 
At one stop, I heard something large fly over that I can only imagine must have 
been a Crane or something of similar size. The sound of the air rushing over 
the feathers was akin to the sound one hears when flying a kite (the sound of 
the kite rattling in the wind) Whatever it was, was only about 50ft up.  
At another stop, I heard a call that was repeated rapidly, at 1 or 2 second 
intervals for about a minute at a time. It was something like a cross between a 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo call and the call of an Eastern Meadowlark. a rattling 
"jchup, jchup... jchup jhchup jchup, jchup jchup"   It wasn't any vocalization 
I'm familiar with. 

Kind of interesting the things you hear out there at night. Sometimes you never 
know what you'll hear. 




Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County Interpretive Naturalist Mississippi 
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