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Last night at 0.50 h I was woken up by a
Barking Owl calling from our neighbour's yard in Ainslie, at least the
calls were very close, loud and powerful. The bird may have called for a while
before I had woken, but fully awake I still heard about 10 of the
double 'wook wook' barks, then was silence, and no further calls were heard, nor
of course any sing of a bird.
After Peter Milburn had earlier reported a Barking
Owl from Campbell Park, I have been out there a couple of times and listened to
tape recordings that Alastair Smith had brought along and to others found on the
web. Any dogs in the neighbourhood which may have given rise to confusion are
kept inside overnight and I am familiar with their (daytime) barks, none
resemble the owl calls I had heard.
Michael Lenz
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