[NatureNS] Which owl?

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Sounds like it could be....Their call kinda sounds like " Who cooks 
for you? Who cooks for you allllll."

Angela


>A couple of mornings ago I was rudely wakened around 6:20 AM (already light
>then) by a loud 4-note motif coming from a tree somewhere outside, from what
>sounded like an owl.  Over a few minutes, the call was repeated several times,
>Huh-hoo, hoo-hoo.  The last 3 syllables were delivered at a similar low pitch,
>while the first 'Huh' was pitched a little higher, but not by much.  The time
>gap between 2 & 3 was longer than that between either 1 & 2, or 3 & 
>4. Couldn't
>see the caller at all.
>
>Looking in Sibley, this seems to be a best match to the call of a Barred Owl.
>Does that sound like a correct guess?  Are they common? -- don't seem to hear
>many owls here.
>Steve
>Halifax

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Angela Joudrey
aljoudrey@eastlink.ca



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