[nysbirds-l] Screech Owls
I too had 2 Screech Owls call back and forth from adjacent yards last night around 8PM. Most surprising though was one calling for a long time at noon, mid July. Orhan Birol Shelter Island -- 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/ --
RE:[nysbirds-l] Screech Owls
I had an Eastern Screech Owl calling repeatedly within the first 10-20 feet of the stand of trees in my yard this weekend. Also had a migrant Ruby-throated Hummingbird yesterday. Cheers Patrick Santinello From: bounce-37936970-13703...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-37936970-13703...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of John Gluth Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 11:58 PM To: NYSBIRDS-L-for posts Subject: [nysbirds-l] Screech Owls, Heckscher State Park Working an earlier than usual shift at work got me home with just enough daylight left to run over to Heckscher State Park (Suffolk Co.) to try for migrating Nighthawks. But if any were on the move this evening, none passed through the swath of sky I watched, only a few bats. But I did not get shut out on birds entirely. As I neared my car (parked on Old Schoolhouse Road) I heard the soft "whinny" call of an Eastern Screech Owl from the well-wooded yard of a residence across the street. It was soon answered by at least two different birds not far inside the park boundary. The owls went back and forth for a few minutes with some short lulls. My barely passable whinny imitation may have done the trick, or maybe it was just coincidence, but eventually one owl flew into a tree just inside the park fence. A streetlight up the block provided just enough illumination to help make out the bird's shaggy silhouette and some faint details, but I wished I'd had a flashlight in my car. These birds were among the very few Screech Owls I've encountered without playback of recordings, mostly during the frigid pre-dawn hours of Christmas counts, so finding some without trying on a balmy late summer evening was a very pleasant surprise. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> Please submit your observations to <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> eBird! -- -- 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/ --
RE:[nysbirds-l] Screech Owls
I had an Eastern Screech Owl calling repeatedly within the first 10-20 feet of the stand of trees in my yard this weekend. Also had a migrant Ruby-throated Hummingbird yesterday. Cheers Patrick Santinello From: bounce-37936970-13703...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-37936970-13703...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of John Gluth Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 11:58 PM To: NYSBIRDS-L-for posts Subject: [nysbirds-l] Screech Owls, Heckscher State Park Working an earlier than usual shift at work got me home with just enough daylight left to run over to Heckscher State Park (Suffolk Co.) to try for migrating Nighthawks. But if any were on the move this evening, none passed through the swath of sky I watched, only a few bats. But I did not get shut out on birds entirely. As I neared my car (parked on Old Schoolhouse Road) I heard the soft whinny call of an Eastern Screech Owl from the well-wooded yard of a residence across the street. It was soon answered by at least two different birds not far inside the park boundary. The owls went back and forth for a few minutes with some short lulls. My barely passable whinny imitation may have done the trick, or maybe it was just coincidence, but eventually one owl flew into a tree just inside the park fence. A streetlight up the block provided just enough illumination to help make out the bird's shaggy silhouette and some faint details, but I wished I'd had a flashlight in my car. These birds were among the very few Screech Owls I've encountered without playback of recordings, mostly during the frigid pre-dawn hours of Christmas counts, so finding some without trying on a balmy late summer evening was a very pleasant surprise. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ eBird! -- -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Screech Owls
I too had 2 Screech Owls call back and forth from adjacent yards last night around 8PM. Most surprising though was one calling for a long time at noon, mid July. Orhan Birol Shelter Island -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Screech Owls, Heckscher State Park
Working an earlier than usual shift at work got me home with just enough daylight left to run over to Heckscher State Park (Suffolk Co.) to try for migrating Nighthawks. But if any were on the move this evening, none passed through the swath of sky I watched, only a few bats. But I did not get shut out on birds entirely. As I neared my car (parked on Old Schoolhouse Road) I heard the soft "whinny" call of an Eastern Screech Owl from the well-wooded yard of a residence across the street. It was soon answered by at least two different birds not far inside the park boundary. The owls went back and forth for a few minutes with some short lulls. My barely passable whinny imitation may have done the trick, or maybe it was just coincidence, but eventually one owl flew into a tree just inside the park fence. A streetlight up the block provided just enough illumination to help make out the bird's shaggy silhouette and some faint details, but I wished I¹d had a flashlight in my car. These birds were among the very few Screech Owls I¹ve encountered without playback of recordings, mostly during the frigid pre-dawn hours of Christmas counts, so finding some without trying on a balmy late summer evening was a very pleasant surprise. -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] screech-owls
Had atleast one juvenile screech-owl calling outside my friends home tonight on Spaulding Drive in Yorktown Heights. Hadn't heard that call from a screech yet but have with great horneds. Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Field Biologist & Eco-tour Leader 37 Tanglewylde Avenue Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708-3131 Phone: (914) 337-1229; Cell: (914) 886-5124; Fax: (914) 771-8036 "When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again..." - William Beebe, first Curator of Birds, Bronx Zoo "Crikey! Have a look at that!" - Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter "Just like the white winged dove sings a song, sounds like she's singing whoo, baby...whoo...said whoo" - Stephanie L. Nicks, Edge of 17, Bella Donna -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] screech-owls
Had atleast one juvenile screech-owl calling outside my friends home tonight on Spaulding Drive in Yorktown Heights. Hadn't heard that call from a screech yet but have with great horneds. Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Field Biologist Eco-tour Leader 37 Tanglewylde Avenue Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708-3131 Phone: (914) 337-1229; Cell: (914) 886-5124; Fax: (914) 771-8036 When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again... - William Beebe, first Curator of Birds, Bronx Zoo Crikey! Have a look at that! - Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter Just like the white winged dove sings a song, sounds like she's singing whoo, baby...whoo...said whoo - Stephanie L. Nicks, Edge of 17, Bella Donna -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
