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Re: owlish mystery

Subject: Re: owlish mystery
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_audio
Date: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:22 am ((PDT))
  At 5:03 AM +0000 8/26/09, hartogj wrote:
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>
>While camping in Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest last
>weekend, this call sounded distant yet loud enough to wake us all
>around 2:30 am. Luckily, I had a pair of at2032s on a tree down in
>the woods.
>
><http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-20090822_0230_owls.mp3>http://www.rocks=
callop.org/ear/jh-20090822_0230_owls.mp3
>
>Any ideas about it? I am guessing barred owl.

Hi John--
That's seems like a very good guess to me. Maybe a "scream" call
followed by bits of the voicing used for the familiar "who cooks"
calls?  Here's a similar sequence with traffic in the background
recorded in SW Wisconsin:

https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/type/public/media/8989outBarredOwlScream.aif

Rob D.

>  There was a barred owl giving a more typical call near our camp
>around night fall, and also some distant great-horned owls on the
>recording calling during the half-hour prior to the sound.
>
>John Hartog
>
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