Had I only caught a glimpse, but I never saw-whet.
Thanks for all the input: for now I'm leaning toward the Northern
Saw-whet Owl. I looked up both birds in Sibley's and in Birds of
Oregon. I found that the Northern Pigmy Owl's toots are spaced
more than a second apart, while the Saw-whet's toots are
spaced about half a second apart, so the Saw-whet makes more
sense to me.
Birds of Oregon also mentions that none of the Saw-whet's
many vocalizations sound like a saw being whetted - what ever
that sounds like.
-John Hartog
--- In "John Hartog"
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>
> Both of these snippets are from a recording made last May at a
lake
> in a patch of forest in the Coast Range of northwest Oregon. It
was
> around 5am - twilight but still dark enough to need a flashlight
to
> find the trail. It was very quiet then and so were these sounds.
>
> This first one sounds like an osprey to me.
> www.hevanet.com/rockscallop/040509_Mystery_a.mp3
>
> This second and more distant sound began about three
minutes later
> and continued at a steady pace for a good two minutes. Could
it be a
> Northern Pigmy Owl?
> www.hevanet.com/rockscallop/040509_Mystery_b.mp3
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
> John Hartog
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