Simon Mustoe wrote:
For information, there was a barking owl calling in Belgrave Heights
three nights ago. The bird was calling continually for about half an
hour at 3:30am (I had been kindly woken by my one year old daughter).
This is not far from Lysterfield Park where local birders recorded
roosting Barking Owls recently. It would appear therefore that this
bird has a territory in the vicinity of Birdsland Reserve, which is
just a the bottom of the hill.
My colleagues and I found a single Barking Owl roosting within a
Powerful Owl territory (and just 100m away from a roosting PO) in
Montrose - just below the Dandenong Ranges in easterm Melbourne, back a
couple of months. It was around for about a week, and has since
vanished! Single BOs must be a bit lonely out there on Melbourne's
fringe ...
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