For exercise and to listen to the night sounds I occasionally go for a night walk in the Massapequa Preserve by walking the bike path. Tonight, for the first time in the 27 years I've lived next to the Preserve, I heard a Great Horned Owl calling. I first heard it while walking past the U.S.G.S. gauging station located next to the path. I sat on the bench overlooking the pond where I first reported the least bittern and could easily hear the owl calling from the swamp south-southwest of "bittern pond". It called 23 more times before I got up to continue my walk. This occurrence might be noteworthy given the dearth of GHO records from southern Nassau County........
John Turner -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
