Thanks everyone for all of your helpful suggestions. The consensus majority
suggestion was juvenile Great Horned. I passed that suggestion back to my
friend, and also the idea to try to record it. I trust he will forward that
info on to our helpful land owner.
Again, thank you for helping me "give something back" to this non-birder land
owner, who is helping the CBC out every year. Much appreciated.
Cheers,
Steve
On Sep 19, 2017, at 9:26 PM, Frederick Atwood wrote:
Hi Steve
Try juvenile great horned owl and juvenile barred owl
Fred
From: Stephen Johnson via va-bird <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: VA-Bird <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 9:09 PM
Subject: [Va-bird] help with bird call ID - verbal description only, no
recording
Hello birders,
A fellow Christmas Bird Counter got this description, from one of our helpful
landowners. I really like to give back to these people, who help out so much
by letting us use their properties for the CBC every year.
Any ideas, folks? Thanks -- --
Steve Johnson
Fairfax, Virginia
(Dated 19 September -- -- )
On and off for the past few weeks I have been hearing a bird call at dusk,
sometimes at night and sometimes in the early morning before daylight.
It is a shrill call that doesn't last long and the bird repeats itself
after a few minutes- It sounds like eeH with soft nasal e's and raising
intonation on the h. Last night the bird started at 8:45 and stopped before
9:30. Once when it happened at dusk I went out but the bird was hidden by
tree leaves then it flew off and all I could see was a flash of white from
the rear- it seemed to be a large bird but it was moving away fast and the
light was bad so I could have been mistaken. Unfortunately it doesn't
appear on a schedule.
P.S. I told him to suggest to the landowner, that they listen to Macaulay
Library recordings for Northern Flicker (single whistle call) and
Great-crested Fly. Anything else they should try?
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