Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:16:39 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Thomas Young Subject: Re: Owl question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm not sure about Barred Owls, but I know that Great Horned Owl young can continue to give the "shreeEEK" begging call well into autumn. On two occasions I have heard a Great Horned give this call while I was doing a Christmas Bird Count--thus it was some time during the second half of December. So hearing this call during the first half of November would not be unlikely. Tom Young Merrimack, NH ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================