Great Horned Owls are just one of a myriad reasons I am proud to keep my
cats INdoors! Birds are safe from them, and they are safe from birds
(and coyotes!).
I did not realize any bats were around all year long in this area!
Floating on a pond to count them sounds rather idyllic!
Maybe the song-leader of your local pack is a coy-wolf. I recently
enjoyed a documentary about the cross-breeding of certain populations of
wolves and coyotes. We don't have any wolfy-sounding coyotes around
here. Just the vocalizations that sound like a huge crowd of rowdy
teenagers up to no good. Still a beautiful and haunting sound.
We have been getting visits from what seem to be a Northern Cardinal
family group and a Black-capped Chickadee family group. Very noisy and
amusing visitors.
Melanie
On 8/7/2015 9:15 PM, Geo Kloppel wrote:
I stepped out a few minutes ago to see what the dusk might bring. The local
Barred Owls are quiet. I was looking right at the top of a balsam fir outlined
against the lingering light in the west when a Great Horned Owl flew up and
perched on the spire. Watch out, cats!
Several of our big year-round bats are out flying. Think I'll go down to the
pond, try to get a count, and maybe float around for a while under the night
sky.
One song-leader among our local coyote pack howls just like a wolf! That sets
all the others to yipping and singing in proper coyote fashion, but the
wolf-howl is just an amazing thing!
-Geo Kloppel
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