Hi everyone, On my way in to work this morning I heard a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL calling in the western part of Sapsucker Woods. I only heard and did not see the bird calling from near the top of a tall white pine located south across the path from the shelter that is at the intersection of the Wilson Trail and Severinghaus Trail. The calls that I heard were roughly a half-dozen sequences of 6 to 8 "toot" notes, fairly soft but clearly audible. After the second sequence of toots, I whistled back, which I guess prompted a bit more tooting by the owl. However, I don't think that the bird moved as it called, with all of the calls seeming to come from somewhere deep in the branches within the top 2 or 3 metres of the pine. I am also guessing that the original trigger for calling was related to a group of 5 crows that landed in the top of the same pine tree, calling loudly but not obviously physically mobbing.
Oh, and the COMMON REDPOLL is persisting around the feeder garden at the Lab of Ornithology, being fairly vocal with both call notes as it flies around and the occasional zzzzziiiipp call/partial song. Wesley -- 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/ --
