Outside our home are several tall conifers. We noticed a source of hooting in the tree right at our back door. In fact, in the blackness of the tree, I could see some lighter-coloured movement that must've been the owl. But it wasn't the only one. A nearby tree was also responding with hooting; they were calling to each other! I saw an owl fly off, but there was still hooting at that tree, which meant there must've been three owls initially! The owls continued calling to each other for quite some time, so after I was satisfied with as good a photo as I could with manual focus and a 50 mm lens, I ran back inside to grab a longer lens. By the time I emerged the second time, the owls were gone.
Here's an excerpt of two of them calling to each other
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mEbsAJqRk3tfNDU6xwB_4xHLo4dh8YhS
The call, combined with a sasquach-like photo makes me fairly certain they were great-horned owls.
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I've never heard them make a sound in urban areas, either. One spring, up in the woods near Chase, a pair or three were hooting and beeping for hours in the middle of the night. Amazing!
Awesome to actually see and hear the owls. Fantastic creatures. We don't have owls in our urban neighborhood. My kids, when they were little, would think that the sound of mourning doves were owls, though.
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