Nice, Melanie! For Great Horned Owls in our area the 6 week season of courtship
is near (late December through January), so you may be in for more of the same.
Here's an enjoyable historic piece on the subject, full of Tompkins County
experiences (it's from Frederick Baumgartner's doctoral
I was very lucky last evening to catch a Great Horned Owl call from a
westerly direction while about to enter my house on Wood Road at about
10:30 pm (12/10/2016). I put my musical equipment away and noticed that
the moon was very bright on the freshly fallen snow. I went out to enjoy
this