It doesn't seem owl-like to me. Lots of saw-whets & boreals and a few pigmy
owls in my area, and it doesn't sound like anything I've heard from them. I
agree with Barb's comments about the audible wing-flapping and the lack of
mobbing by nearby chickadees. I don't have a lot of experience with Cooper's
hawks, but the slowly repeated 'kek' seems plausible....much slower than
I've ever heard from a Cooper's, however.
Sorry I can't be of much help other than to say it's not likely a saw-whet
Mark Phinney
Dawson Creek, BC
on 12/12/04 7:27 PM, Rich Peet at wrote:
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> I sat on this recording for more than a year before I decided it was
> a saw-whet. But still the bird was never seen and the sound seems to
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> Do you agree with me that this too is a saw-whet owl?
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> 500 kb download at:
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/sawwhet.mp3
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> Rich Peet
> ps, no not the chickadee.
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> Klas Strandberg
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