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Index of Subjects Sorry...I did mean to say courting.They have been active just about every night and sometime in the early morning(daylight) and it is two different pitches. Jeannie Shermerhorn,Port Hawkesbury Cottage....Cape George,Cape Breton "Let us permit Nature to have her way; she understands her business better than we do." - Michel de Montaigne jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Lauff" <randy.lauff@gmail.com> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Barred owl question > Owls hoot for a couple of reasons, but I've never heard that they hoot * > while* mating! :) But they might... :) > > On 08/04/2008, Jeannie <jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: >> >> I forgot to mention that I had two barred owls ... and ...around 9:30 AM >> they were hooting. Is this a sign that they are mating? > > > Courting, on the other hand, is typically a late winter, early spring > event. > If the two birds were singing at the same pitch, it could be you had two > males hooting at each other; if the two were at different pitches, you > could > have had a dueting pair. > > Randy > _________________________________ > RF Lauff > Way in the boonies of > Antigonish County, NS. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.22.13/1377 - Release Date: 14/04/2008 9:26 AM
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