At 2:56 AM +0000 3/21/08, John Hartog wrote:
>Last weekend while out on a volunteer stream restoration project with
>the Oregon Natural Desert Association, I recorded several interesting
>call sequences over the night - and here is one of them.
>
>A creature calls nine times around 3am in this 2:13 min section.
>Earlier around sunset the work crew was mystified by a similar call.
>It(or they) also called well into the dawn chorus. (2MB)
>
><http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-080316-0300_wheeler.mp3>http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-080316-0300_wheeler.mp3
>
>Wheeler County,(north-central)Oregon, March 16, 2008
>Hills and canyons, semi-arid sage and grassland,
>SD 702 gain setting 66
>AT 3032 stereo using a homemade Jecklin style disk
>Post edits: boost +40, high shelf -28 at 18k, and +2 Q5 at 500Hz.
>
>This is a request for an ID, any insight or questions are welcome
>
>John Hartog
>www.rockscallop.org
>
Hi John. Congrats on your new 702. Great Horned Owl?
http://www.owling.com/Great_Horned.htm#recordings
The "Silverado Canyon, California October 2000" sample on the right
has a pretty close match to yours. I did not know (if the text means
to suggest it) that only the female makes this shortened call. Rob D.
--
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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