We have been hearing a young barred owl in the woods behind the house lately but it's tentative, nothing regular. I say young because it seems to be softly practicing its "who-cooks-for-you, who-cooks-for-you-all" call.
The one reliable place that I know to routinely see or hear one of the sweet-faced owls is, most conveniently, near the Visitor Center at Ijams. We often hear it conversing with the injured barred owl we adopted several years ago.
And with the gentle face like the one in the above photo, what owl wouldn't want an early evening "how-ya-doing" kind of chat?
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That's solved another conundrum for me, I assumed they worked in pairs and here the 'terwit' was one bird and the 'Whoo' was the reply. Believe, possibly wrongly that the ones I hear are Little Owls.
Hello Adrian.
Yes, at this time of the year, all young birds are practicing the songs they heard their parents sing. It's like what we did when we were kids practicing words and songs.
You can hear them, they sound like their parents but not quite.
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