Thanks Geoffrey. I do realise that the issue of the Sooty Owl is one of probabilities and that short of a recording I can prove nothing. None of us reports for our own benefit but for the wider knowledge of the birding community.
I many years ago added the SO to my lifetime list so I do not need affirmation.
As to hearing me on ABC radio about Aboriginal languages, the segment they used was in reference to Bible translation and the culturally appropriate rendering of ‘It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for
a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven’ as ‘It is easier for a kangaroo to go down the hole of an ant....’.
From: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 11:44:15 AM
To:
Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] Large owl
Don’t worry John. Anything is possible. I think the panel proceeds in accordance with probabilities, and the less likely the bird the greater the evidentiary
burden.
It is pleasing when a chatline member achieves wider recognition, and I was delighted to hear you quoted as an authority on Northern Territory Kriol on Radio
National’s ‘God Forbid’ program. This was in connection with the Kriol Bible and you were talking about the need to amend certain metaphors. I can’t remember the details of the example but something like ‘it is easier for an emu to fly to Canberra than for
a kangaroo to enter the Kingdom of Heaven’.
gd,
From: John Harris [
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2018 11:50 AM
To: Geoffrey Dabb;
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Large owl
Probably a long shot for the large Hackett owl, but I have been hearing a Sooty Owl on Percival Hill for some months. My neighbour saw it clearly on the clothes line but I did not. Not as big as PO but bigger and bulkier than Boobook etc.
As I believe it/they are around, it may be good to think Sooty Owl if you see a large owl or hear the unmistakeable “falling bomb” sound it makes. The unusual birds panel is yet to rule on my reports so I have stopped reporting hearing it. No point in keeping
on reporting hearing it if they are going to rule that I have not heard it.
From: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 7:06:48 AM
To:
Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] Large owl
Why is so much always going on in Hackett, and why is everyone talking about
internet connections? Perhaps a PO, if large, if an owl. g
-----Original Message-----
From: David Nicholls
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:23 AM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: Large owl
My sister reports seeing a large owl (substantially bigger than a Boobook)
perched on the Transact cable in Hackett between Hedley St and Caldwell St,
the other night. It was too dark to see the markings clearly. Possible
Powerful Owl?
DN
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