At about 9:00, I heard some soft spontaneous whistled "barking" from an owl coming from the spruces in my Northeast Ithaca backyard. It didn't sound immediately familiar and I whistled a few imitations. It answered a couple of times, and then broke into a fast tooting trill, almost as fast as a Screech Owl -- but the trill slowed down into a classic N. Saw Whet tooting. Jay McGowan is listening for it now -- as of a few minutes ago it hadn't answered our tooting attempts.
I've whistled for this species dozens of times in my yard this winter -- it must just sit there and laugh at me. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
