Re: [MDOsprey] FW: saw-whets Assateague
MHoff36100@aol.com
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:59:06 EST
Jordan --
I have had saw-whets "toot" in winter on Assateague in response to tapes, but
the location you describe is exactly where Brinker's owl banding station is
located. The fact that the "tooting was incessant" makes it certain that you
heard the audio-lure, not the real thing. Strike one from the list?
Also woodcock can be heard performing their "courtship" display on any warm
night on the lower shore during most of the winter. We frequently get them
doing this on CBCs if the weather is right. They can not really be mating
(they breed early, but not that early!?!). The Island is a good place for
them.
Mark Hoffman
In a message dated 12/6/99 12:25:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Jordan.Wilkerson@jhuapl.edu writes:
> MDOsprey,
>
> The "Owls" were tooting (unexpected in the winter?) One was tooting
> incessantly, but the other seemed to be a few notes occasionally. We
> debated whether the tooting was someone calling or a real owl. I have
never
> seen a Saw-Whet except in captivity, so we, of course, were anxious to say
> it was real. I have read that Saw-Whets don't usually toot in the winter,
> so it was unexpected except that it was an exceptionally warm weekend in
> December, and we also heard the woodcocks calling. Any more specifics on
> Dave Brinker's whereabouts on the night in question (December 4th 1999)?
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
> Jordan,
> Cloverly, MD
>
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> From: J.B. Churchill [SMTP:jbc@caf.wvu.edu]
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> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 11:24 AM
> To: Jordan.Wilkerson@jhuapl.edu
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>
> You wrote:
> >
> MDOsprey,
>
> >12/4
> >Woodcocks displaying by the ranger station at sunset. At least 2
> >participating in the peent calls as well as the wing-whir flight
> display.
> >We flushed a third nearby.
>
> >Heard Saw-whets calling
> >
>
> Were the Saw-whets calling or tooting ???. Just be aware that Dave
> Brinker is
> still banding owls up there so tooting owls heard at this time of
> the year are
> likely to be audiolures. There is one set up near the State Park,
> one near the
>
> end of the Blacktop and the National Park and 2 lures south of the
> Blacktop.
>
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