Dave, Thanks for your post!! I thought it was a Western based on the bill color and facial markings but there were a lot of folks who thought it was an Eastern.
Bill Kosar On Monday, December 10, 2018 at 6:57:34 AM UTC-7, David Tønnessen wrote: > > Birders, > > I took the liberty of clearing up this Screech-owl conundrum once and for > all this morning, as I think I've now received alerts of excess of 15 > reports of it being either species (Western and Eastern). At around 6:20 > am, the bird responded to an Eastern Screech-owl whinny on tape by letting > out a slow bouncing ball song, and then in response to Western Screech-owl > tape it flew behind me and made single, soft hoots of the same quality as > those found in the bouncing ball song. > > In conclusion, this Bear Creek Dog Park Screech-owl which according to > locals has been here since Thanksgiving, is a Western. > > > Happy birding and Happy Holidays, > David Tonnessen > Colorado Springs, CO > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/2fc6fa60-7b02-4172-b188-f07b693cced5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
