Sounds like a Saw-whet to me. Northern Pygmy slower and lower in pitch.
Barb Beck
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
John Hartog wrote:
>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.
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>This first one sounds like an osprey to me.
>www.hevanet.com/rockscallop/040509_Mystery_a.mp3
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>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
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>Your help is greatly appreciated.
>John Hartog
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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