For some reason I am hanging out on the Cornell ornithology site listening to owl sounds.
Yeah, I dunno what it is about owl calls, but they’re fun to listen to. I used to live in a place that housed a family of Barred Owls in the wooded area surrounding the neighborhood. Those things are huge. Two feet tall. Four to five feet wing span. I always made sure my cats were inside well before dusk.
The adults have a very distinctive call that you can’t mistake for anything else. I used to enjoy listening to them call to each other, but once I was woken by the screeching that is the fledgling begging call right outside my window (at the bottom of the Cornell page). Quite a thing to wake up to at 3am.
Hearseeno 