I had left the window open yesterday night and was facing the window and sleeping to catch the cool breeze. Early morning at 1.50 am I was woken up to a call of Eastern Screech Owl. After a few seconds it became louder, so I went to pick up my recorder and tried to record the sound, to my dismay I found both Hard drive and SD card were both full. So I deleted some files and then tried to record. Just then the my battery power went low and started flashing. Finally I gave up and just listened to it calling. First it did several winnowing and did tooting for quite some time. It continued till 10 minutes or so. Then I got desperate. So I decided to use my android note pad with a video recorder. I was just about to hit the video switch on, when the bird decided it had enough and it stopped.
What is interesting to me and bothering question is did I wake up to the call of owl? Or was it by chance I woke up and heard the call. What I recall is when I woke up I was listening to the call of the owl. So it seems I was conscious of bird calling already when I came to my senses. So this brings another question, so if I knew I was listening to the owl, did my brain wake me up so that I could hear it? I don't wake up for the truck passing by or a dog barking, which occur through out the night everyday. So how does our brain know that we are interested in listening to owl call so it wakes us up and we don't care for dog barking or a passing truck so our brain just does not wake us up to perceive those sounds. So it is amazing if our brain wakes us up as we are quite interested in listening to owl calls! Oh it is all confusing to explain! Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
