Hi Rod!
I notice you used my old Email - I had to close that because of too much
spam.
I have only seen Barking Owls in SEQ near Blackall, in a patch of wetter
forest, and at Kenilworth sewerage pond, where I watched one chase a
Vespadelus pumilus I was spotlighting. I avoided any guilt for that
because the bat avoided the owl! In all the time I spent in the
Conondales, this was my only recording from the area.
I once heard a screaming woman call, in Victoria, but never saw the owl.
I suppose it might have been human... But it also might have been Sooty,
which I knew nothing about at the time. Even after years of seeing
Sootys in Qld, I would occasionally hear one at close range, making the
hairs on the back of my neck stand up for a brief moment till I realised
what I'd heard!
And just a warning about Owl calls - years ago several of us heard a
Barking Owl in the Grampians of Victoria. It was totally convincing,
except that over a period of a few minutes, it gradually morphed its
calls into Powerful Owl calls. Powerful was the actual culprit, as we
were able to confirm visually. But for a while, it was giving very good
imitations of Barking, and had we not followed it up, we would have been
completely convinced a Barking was present.
Cheers, Chris.
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