Re:[nfc-l] Barn Owl Candidate - Etna, NY

2012-08-15 Thread Paul Hurtado
Hi all, I returned with a shotgun mic and minidisc recorder this morning and was able to relocate the source of my mystery owl (it was a GREAT HORNED OWL, not Barn) and get both a visual ID and better recordings of the calls. Sound traveling over large distances (especially horizontally through v

Re: [nfc-l] Barn Owl Candidate - Etna, NY

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Hurtado
Hello everyone, Early this morning I recorded (with my phone, unfortunately) what I think is a Barn Owl just outside of Columbus Ohio where there have been unconfirmed reports of Barn Owl in recent weeks. The vocalizations I heard were very similar to Chris T-H's recording that was recently share

Re: [nfc-l] Barn Owl Candidate - Etna, NY

2012-08-02 Thread Jay McGowan
Very cool, Chris! Here is my eBird report from Friday night with details of my owl, for those interested. No recordings, unfortunately. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11248369 -Jay On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes < c...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Last ni

[nfc-l] Barn Owl Candidate - Etna, NY

2012-08-02 Thread Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
Last night, I recorded a few distant unusual-sounding screams (unfamiliar to me at my recording location), the loudest and closest of which sounds and spectrographically looks like a very near match for BARN OWL. This is an extremely rare migrant through Upstate, NY. I would appreciate any input