On two early (c. 9 pm) evenings in the last few days in Toms Crescent,
Ainslie, two birds have been first heard (with repeated "chrring" calls
over a longish period), and then briefly seen on power lines, and power
poles, and flitting (hawking insects??) between them. The birds seem
(the light was very poor and I had no flashlight) to be about the size
of boobooks. However, the calls, to my ears, were unlike any owl or
frogmouth calls that I've heard.
Do they ring a bell to anyone - perhaps juvenile calls? (I was
intrigued by Jenny Smits note re "trilling" of Barking Owls earlier today).
I tried a snap photo but it is so poor it doesnt help - except to
suggest a vaguely owlish shape?
Robin Hide
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