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rosemummy
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at 7 this eve i thought i heard an owl, i thought i heard one in the early hours a few days ago but then thought i'd imagined it because i really wanted to hear one... then this evening it kept hootin, so me & my 4 year old came up to the attic and watched and listened to this owl for 10 minutes! it was too dark to see well but saw him/her shuffle as he/she hooted,staying on the same branch of the 100 year old tree directly outside our house, we live really near city centre, though immediately across from botanical gardens, what a treat! i don't know who was more excited, me or my daughter! does anyone know what type of owl it's likely to be? it looked fairly large& certainly didn't screech!
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just googled owls in urban areas that's what it suggests, thanks ice, i just am very easily excited!
youtube has lots of recordings of bird call. Have a listen.
Start with tawny and barn are the most common here
thanks nut, fairly sure it was a tawny, it was just quite special watching and listening with my daughter
I love hearing owls at night. We put up an owl box years ago in the hope that some would come and live here, nothing yet
It's the male Tawnys that do the 'woo', the females say 'keewick'! It's easy to hear them and not recognise them as owls if you don't know
I get them occasionally here, but I've never heard both sexes at the same time.
yes, sounds like a tawny owl
I was very excited to see an owl in our special owl box a few years ago - it comes and goes during the year but never seen a mate with it. I am not surprised you were excited rosemummy - having the owl so close - and knowing that it will help get rid of any unwanted furry creatures with long tails that may be living nearby. Our owl is a barn owl and it makes a sort of pathetic screech noise.