Thanks Rob,
I am pretty certain you are right. At times the calls were in step
with male great-horned owl calls.
My 702 is almost a year old now, It replaced two Hi-MD recorders that
both died (read errors) after less than a year of use.
John Hartog
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> 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)
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><http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-080316-0300_wheeler.mp3>http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-080316-0300_wheeler.mp3
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> >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
> >
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> 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.
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