O'Connor: Barking Owl

[Susanne Gardiner <>]

interesting.

I heard a call a couple of days ago (10.30pm) in north Ainslie and went outside to see what it was as I couldn't decide if it was a lost dog or a bird. Once outside, the neighbour opened their door and put on the outside light and the call stopped. 

A bird flew away - silently and with shallow wingbeat, level flightpath and wide wingtips. I only saw it for 1 or 2 seconds in silhouette and estimate it somewhere in size of a magpie.

Comparing owl calls on my Morcombe app, it was higher pitched than a female barking owl and one call started with a slight tremolo. Other than that it had the 2 calls at a time sequence. 

Could it still have been a Barking Owl or something different all together?

Susanne

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I have just seen a Barking Owl on the (new insulated) power lines behind our
house in O'Connor.  Like all respectable birds it departed southwards into
Turner after glaring at me for about a minute.

Milburn

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