At 9pm last night, clearly beside the street lights in Toms Cresc/Lewis
St giving excellent views, two Boobooks were "chrrring" loudly away.
Robin Hide
On 28/01/2013 6:02 PM, Robin Hide wrote:
Many thanks Anthony, Mark, Denis - at least one young boobook then-
(looks like that Morecombe app is only available for smart phones..?)
Robin
On 28/01/2013 3:21 PM, Anthony Overs wrote:
Robin, the cricket-like trill call is typical of young boobooks.
There's a good example of the call on the Morcombe app, and I'm sure
there are other examples elsewhere
Cheers
Anthony
On 28/01/2013, at 3:12 PM, Robin Hide <> wrote:
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
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