I think our neighborhood has a new resident. He sits in the trees and says HOO HOOOO HOO all day. I’ve been told that it’s an owl, but I thought all owls were nocturnal. Apparently some aren’t. He sounds totally fake though. Not like any of the owl calls I’ve listened to online. Like someone’s put out one of those owl decoys to keep other birds away or something.
Imposter owl maybe? I don’t know. Anyone else hear Hoo hoooo hoo once and a while?
Only if I’ve consumed way tooooooo much coffee Seriously though, even though they are nocturnal, we used to have one that vegged out in a tree back home and every once in awhile, he would hoot, just to let us know he was home !
I live in the Seal Cove area and I’ve heard the hoo-hoo-hoo early in the morning. I was wondering what it was. Is there an ornithologist in the house who can illuminate us?
I had this very same conversation while talking with a friend last night at the top of Big 6 at Ambrose…that hooting sound seemed very close and perhaps was being made by two of whatever it is.
It certainly wasn’t anywhere near dark, though; 6-ish maybe.
I did ask an ‘hornythologist’ friend of mine, he told me that this sound is very familiar at closing time downtown around the Belmont. Apparently, it’s a very popular mating call. Knowing him … I’ll take his word for it.
I’ve been hearing it in the early morning in the last block of 6th Ave East… Too far away from the Belmont, and too early/late for it to be a drunken mating call, in spite of what your learned friends tell you.
How great is that? What a great way to frustrate my cat She is sitting here in front of the monitor waiting for the birds to take flight and I guess she is hoping for dessert