Hi Lawrie and others interested in barking owls
Yesterday Ian Rainbow and I were checking on some powerful owl sites in
Lysterfield [park on edge of Dandenong Ranges, 40 kms east of Melbourne]
when we disturbed a barking owl roosting in a creek gully.
The owl flew 30 metres away to a higher roost, and provided good views
until chased away by a grey butcherbird.
Barking owls successfully nested on a property in Mt Evelyn [also edge
of the Dandenongs] in 2003.
Cheers
Laurie Living
Lawrie Conole wrote:
Dave Torr wrote:
Not sure if you count Monbulk as a suburb, but I had it when I lived
there in June last year - just one night and it was flying round my
house for maybe 10 minutes "barking" - no way it could have been a
dog from the movement!
Dave's record of a flying dog sounds plausible enough, but I do have
my doubts about _some_ suburban Melbourne Barking Owl records of
recent years.
Recently when doing some work at Montrose (not so very far from
Monbulk), we used owl playback in a survey. Our Barking Owl taped
call was heard by a local, and dutifully reported elsewhere as a
Barking Owl record! Another resident's description of a Barking Owl
barking turned out to be a brushtail possum coughing. I'm even more
sceptical about records based on the 'screaming woman' call (see
earlier e-mail on this list) - as I'm reasonably certain many of those
are foxes, and some may be Masked Owls.
All of that said, there are some Barkers still hanging on in various
bits of Metro Melbourne. I'd like to see a few more of them checked
out and verified.
L.
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