Time: 5am Date: Muckrace Saturday (9/7) Place: upstairs bathroom vs front porch, 812 N Tioga St Observers: Susan Danskin and Dave Nutter Suspects: Eastern Screech Owl or Dave Nutter doing a darn good imitation While taking a last minute pit stop in my upstairs bathroom before heading out for Muckrace, I heard the distinct whinny of an eastern screech owl. Thinking it was unlikely that I had just gotten a life-yard-bird while sitting on the john, I figured Dave was just practicing his screech owl imitation from my front porch before our Muckrace adventures began. Dave denied any such doing and bemoaned his declining hearing as the reason he had missed it. Muckrace fever soon struck and the screech owl was long forgotten.
Time: 10:09pm Date: Today (9/12) Place: upstairs computer room vs front porch, 812 N Tioga St Observer: Susan Danskin Suspects: Eastern Screech Owl or an evil neighbor who has figured out how to torment me While working at my upstairs computer and listening to a podcast, I distinctly heard an eastern screech owl whinny from across the street. Heading down to my front porch for a "better" listen, I found the sound to be quite diminished. Never really thought about it before, but seems that being up on the second floor at tree "top" level really makes a difference. So Dave, maybe your hearing isn't as bad as you think it as at least when it comes to screech owls. Plan to do all of my future owling from the comforts of my bathroom. Much more productive than standing out in the woods freezing my butt off. -- 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/ --
