You know what, it is hard to call, my first impression was a Pigmy but after
reading John Neville, I looked at my recording of a Saw-whet, hmmmmmmmmmmm
I'm going to do a Washington State governor elect here and say it is too
close to call for me.... They both have the same amount of votes and maybe
swaying a bit towards the saw-whet....
Martyn
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Hartog
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:26 AM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] early morning mystery
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
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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