<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">It is certainly the right time of year for migrating Northern Saw-whet Owls, so that is probably what you are hearing. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">You may have already found this site, but this is a great compilation of bird sounds, connected to Nathan Pieplow's Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><a href="https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/">https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 12:18 PM Kellie Sagen <<a href="mailto:kelliekvinne@hotmail.com">kelliekvinne@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello Tweets!<br>
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Over the past week I have been hearing some strange wail/whine calls after dark in my backyard that I have never heard before. It has happened on four occasions with 2 or 3 wails in succession and then silence. The first time I heard it around 9:30pm last week, some Great-horned owls responded. This morning at 5:46am a Barred owl responded to it. I was able to record one of the wails on my Merlin app and it came up as a Peregrine falcon. I do not believe what I’m hearing is a falcon, although I could be wrong. If there is anyone who is familiar with NSOW wails (not toots) and wouldn’t mind listening to my 5 second recording please contact me and I will send you the audio file. I live in the burbs but on a wooded creek and my property backs up to several acres of dense mixed forest.<br>
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I have never heard nor seen a Saw-whet before but I have been listening to dozens of recordings online and that seems to be the closest to it. Although the pitches are higher than what I am hearing in my backyard, the quality seems mostly the same. Whoever is making this noise has not responded to playback of Saw-whet audio so far which leaves me questioning, what exactly am I hearing? <br>
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Thanks for any input!<br>
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Kellie Sagen 🦉<br>
Lake Stevens <br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="4" color="#073763"><span></span>Steve Hampton<span></span></font></div><div>Port Townsend, WA (<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">qatáy</span>)</div></div><br><div><font color="#073763"><i><br></i></font></div></div></div>