Hello Colin,
Its not a young Boobook Owl is it? We've got a couple of young recently
fledged Boobooks roosting in our backyard every day for the last week. They
make calls similar to what you are describing, being louder when they are
in flight. They head off with their parents every evening chirupping away.
They're getting a pretty hard time during the day from Noisy Miners and
Grey Butcherbirds.
You're probably only a couple of km from where we are up above Toronto.
Cheers
Mick Todd
Toronto, NSW
At 09:22 PM 2/12/2004, Colin Driscoll wrote:
Hi all
I first heard this bird before sunrise this morning and again tonight at
9:00. It has been flying circuits over my place at the edge of Lake
Macquarie near Toronto- in the dark and fairly fast. The call is like a
slightly coarse chirruping sounding a bit corella-like and a bit like a
small falcon.
What do you reckon??
Cheers
Colin Driscoll
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PO Box 1047 Toronto NSW 2283
Australia
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