n 2/13/07, Dan Dugan <> wrote:
>
> Aaron, you wrote,
>
> >Speaking of Great Horned Owls, my wife and I have been going to the park
> on
> >top of our hill here in San Francisco every day the past three or so
> weeks
> >to (quietly) view a pair that have been rotating trees...
>
> Do they call at all? I'm right down the hill from you. (On the other
> side of the busy 101 freeway that skirts the hill...)
I've heard them from our house but only rarely; if we lived a block farther
north I suspect we'd hear them more often (at least while they're on the
hilltop). I haven't seen/heard them but someone told us there is at least
one other owl in Holly Park.
Occasionally visiting them during the day over the past couple weeks I've
heard what I decided was "companionable" hooting, quite quiet, which I
didn't interpret as a territorial call. If I was able to go up at dusk it
might be more noisy.
Today when we stopped by they'd moved trees again into a large eucalyptus;
my attention was draw to it by the flock of crows circling it then briefly
alighting on it. I'm sure there was mutual awareness but no hostilities
broke out.
best,
aaron
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