A bit of a late post - sorry. On Sunday afternoon about 5:30, we heard a few calls from a Saw Whet Owl. Carmen heard it first, and drew my attention to it. This is not a bird sound I have a lot of experience with, but after listening we went inside to the computer and listened to the sounds at All About Birds . The calls we heard were a bit more "explosive" than I was familiar with, but the matchup with the calls online were very close. I was a bit surprised by the loudness of the calls we heard.
After returning outside we heard no more from it. The ravens in our neighborhood are pretty vocal and make a wide variety of "noises" and were active then, but no way were they imitating Saw Whets. Perhaps there are other birds which do imitate them and we were mistaken. I doubt anyone was sharpening a saw. -- asher -- 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/ --
