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RE: Re: Flammulated owl ( at Murderers Creek)

Subject: RE: Re: Flammulated owl ( at Murderers Creek)
From: "Martyn Stewart" <>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:11:57 -0700
Where is this location Kevin? I would like to keep my options open; I would
think the canyons around Utah would be fairly quiet?

Martyn

Martyn Stewart
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-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Kevin J. Colver
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:09 PM
To: 
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Re: Flammulated owl ( at Murderers Creek)

I found a couple of nest trees up my Utah canyon a few years ago.  Both =

are in large Douglas fir with nest holes that are used each year.  The=20
birds sing very faintly, you can be right there with it and think it is =

far away.  They might wait through 10-15 minutes of silence before=20
responding to playback, especially as the playback most people use=20
probably sounds like an incredible Hulk owl to these quiet little=20
singers and they wait to resume singing until the big guy is gone.=20=20
Patience, quiet, and luck are important with Flams.

Once we found how to locate these birds we discovered they were fairly=20
common all along the mountain road where no one knew they existed=20
before.

Kevin Colver

On Thursday, June 30, 2005, at 06:47 PM, John Hartog wrote:

> We stayed at Murderers Creek Work Center - the owl was about half a
> mile up stream. I can get you the coordinates if you want them.
>
> Here is the URL for the cabin reservations and directions.
> http://www.reserveusa.com/jsp/commonpage.jsp?goto=3D/nrrs/or/mcwc/
> newindex.html
>
> Although I recorded about 20 minutes of the owl, I was dismayed to
> find while reviewing the recordings when I got home, that at about one
> minute into the recording (around 11pm) the cowboys down the road
> fired up a generator to charge up their portable electric fence system.
>
>
> --- In  "Martyn Stewart" <>
> wrote:
> > Where did you record the Flammulated owl John? I have been looking=20
> for
> > another one of those buggers for ever!! I recorded a faint one in the
> > Klamath Mountains a few years ago but not to my standard, they are
> fairly
> > hard to get in my book..
> >
> > Martyn
> >
> > Martyn Stewart
> > Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
> > http://www.naturesound.org
> >
> > N47.65543=A0=A0 W121.98428
> > Redmond. Washington. USA
> > Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
> >
> > 425-898-0462
>
>
>
>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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