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Nocturnal visitors - ID advice

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Subject: Nocturnal visitors - ID advice
From: Robin Hide <>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:12:15 +1100
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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