Boobook on Red Hill - sound track?

[Mark Clayton <>]

I agree with Anthony, it does sound like a Sugar Glider. Are there any bi-pinnate “leafed” acacias in the area? Sugar Gliders will often feed on the sap from these Acacias.

 

Mark

 

From: Anthony Overs [
Sent: Tuesday, 21 March 2017 10:48 AM
To: David Nicholls
Cc: canberra birds
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Boobook on Red Hill - sound track?

 

sounds like a Sugar Glider

 

A

 

On 21 March 2017 at 10:41, David Nicholls <> wrote:

I'm not sure what this is, but it has made this sound sporadically for the past two nights. It was sitting last night in a Silver Birch tree near our balcony (western end of Deakin, 200 metres below the Red Hill reserve).  This was recorded at 2.30am. Does anyone know what it might be?  It went on for a few minutes each night then stopped.

DN




> On 20 Mar 2017, at 7:54 AM, John Leonard <> wrote:
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> This morning at around 6.15 on the saddle to the east of the water tank above Brassey st Deakin a Boobook flew overhead from one group of trees to another (this was before dawn, while it was still dark).
>
> As it flew it called "mew" three times, a call I have never heard before. Pizzey and Knight describe a "seldom heard 'yo-yo-yo-yo' call, mainly in autumn', which I guess is it, though it sounded like "mew" to me, and the Boobook only said it three times. :-)
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> John Leonard
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