Speaking of Hootie….this YouTube video from CinD is all about the audio. Here’s her intro…
Got a good recording of the Decatur City Owls this evening. Can’t see much in the video, but you can hear them loud and clear! This was right outside my front door on Church Street one block north of Glenlake Park. Enjoy.
How many owls do you hear in the video? Two? Three?
I hear maybe 4. I (and my cat) hear what sound like many owls most evenings where I live on Adair Street. It makes her crazy!
Our cats couldn’t care less. The dog, however, is another story…
Wh-wh-wh-who sent this in? Thank you CinD and DM.
Owls drive pets crazy because they are seriously worried they are about to become the owl’s dinner. One very sneaky bird of prey!
We have this same chorus going on behind our house on S. Candler every night now that it’s warming up. A very large owl flew through the back yard around dusk last night when I was in the garden. It was so close I felt like I could touch it.
Wow! The girls (canine) were verrrrry interested in that audio.
Did anyone hear what sounded like Coyotes carrying on last night, near the cemetery ~3am?
I hear the coyotes howl most every night between 3am and daylight in the Adair-Melrose area. It has gotten so normal to me that when they are quite, I worry about them.
I heard a ruckus in the chicken coop at Oakhurst Communitiy Garden — one or two owls and lots of chicken protests. There are several owls that live on the brim of the “bowl” within which the Garden centers, but I’ve never heard them harrassing the chickens before.
Saw two barred owls in one tree this week on Woodlawn. Gorgeous.
Rebecca did a wonderful job writing about our owls on West Parkwood. Enjoy.
http://parkwoodgardenclub.com/2011/03/22/who-cooks-for-you/#comments
What a great slide show. 24 variety of birds seen on Parkwood this month!
Here’s a Parkwood Owl on video via owl cam in a owl box. AMAZING!
We have had tons of owl calls just about nightly, all year long, for a year or two. It might be both barred and barn owl–the Audabon members of the family would know. Unfortunately, there’s been some books and movies with mean predatory owls in them and so one offspring has been skittish about the owl calls lately. Ditto for coyotes.
Owl= New city mascot.
So what kind of owl is in the viedeo? He was in my backyard last night and early this am.
The owls in Rebacca’s video are Barred Owls. Not being the resident expert, I suppose most of the owls in Decatur are Barred Owls.
Thanks KatieB and MZD for sharing my stuff! This audio clip is great. I’ve heard this before too in my yard last summer. Funny, my kitties don’t react at all when they hear owls. Barred owls are probably the most common urban owl in Atlanta, followed by screech, then great horned, then barn. Barn owls make a hissing screech very different from barred. 24 species is all I’ve attempted to photograph so far. Since January I’ve counted 40 species in my yard, and that was only during the winter! Barred owl babies have already hatched by now or are hatching soon. Keep your eye open for fledglings in April and May.