Screech Owl
Burggraf (burggraf@erols.com)
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:19:43 -0400
Dear all,
Just a happy note for a Baltimore City-dweller, in a busy neighborhood. As
I was putting out the garbage at 10:00 last night, I heard the monotone
trill of an Eastern Screech Owl. The National Geographic guide comments
that this call is often given as a duet between male and female, but I
heard only one owl. With binoculars and flashlight in hand, I went
hunting, hoping that the neighbors would not misinterpret a
flashlight-wielding stanger walking the lane behind our houses (with
binoculars, no less!). I saw the bird fly out and return. As soon as my
flashlight beam revealed the owl, it flew away again, but did not return a
second time. I did see it long enough to observe that it was red phase.
The bird had been singing more than twenty-five minutes from the same
location before it finally left. I will keep listening, hoping that the
bird might return.
--- Don Burggraf ---