Its owl season

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Two barred owls are having a hoot-out about a half block away, which in turn is causing a neighbor's dog to bark. At this hour of the night, I am not going to go out and look for them.
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Are they the same ones that you have been following or have you found two closer to home?

Also, do you know the difference between the Barred owl calls and Great Horned calls? It would be neat if you got a line on GHO's!

Seems like Great Horned hooting calls are more consistent, more often than Barred calls.
 
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I am pretty sure it was a barred owl pair. I have heard them other times this year. The end of my court butts up to Pine Ridge Park and there are tall Doug firs in adjacent yards leading away from the park. I think it is too far from Yost Park to be a nightly hunting soiree.

For those not familiar with Edmonds:
Pine Ridge Park I live on 84th PL., which is visible on the trail map.
http://www.edmondswa.gov/government...rvices/edmonds-city-parks/pineridge-park.html

Yost Park We have been seeing the owls along Shell Creek trail, which is visible on the trail map.
http://www.edmondswa.gov/government...al-services/edmonds-city-parks/yost-park.html
 
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The 2013 owl season is not yet over. Tuesday (9/17) night a family which lives near me, my son Daren, and I went on an owl hunt in Yost Park. We came up empty without hearing so much as a hoot.

Thursday night (9/19) we met up again and walked from our homes to nearby Maplewood Hill Park for another evening's owl hunt. We weren't in the park a minute when the husband Dave spotted a barred owl in a tall fir tree near the swing set.
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I told the family that our presence would not bother the owl and we could circle the tree for a better view. From its size, I judged the owl to be a female.
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I assumed the male would be in the vicinity, so we looked around the park for it. Once again Dave proved to be quite the owl hunter as he spotted the male perched on a tree at the bottom of the ravine near the end of the trail.
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There is another park within walking distance of our homes where I have heard barred owls hooting at night. We will hit it next week. Dave now has the reputation of owl hunter extradinaire to uphold.
 
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Good find. Funny I was walking through Tryon Creek State Park the other day looking for them. No such luck, but soon the leaves will be down.
 


Cool shots. The owls have been invisible at Tryon Creek State Park and the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge (at least for me anyway). I did see one at Ridgefield NWR.
 
It's been quiet, owl-wise in Skagit as well. Only one short-eared spotted in my two trips up. Across the border I didn't have any luck either, though a couple snowies have finally been spotted at Boundary Bay, and long-eared and short-eared are occasionally being seen.

A rare northern hawk owl has been hanging out in Moscow, ID. I'm tempted to make the drive over to see it at some point if it remains in the area.

Max
 
Washington State University head football coach Mike Leach, when interviewed on a Seattle sports radio talk show, reported seeing a large owl hanging out in his and his neighbor's back yards. According to Leach, it may be a great gray owl. He said that he had researched the owl and found that Pullman is within its southernmost winter range.

For those who are not familiar with Mike Leach, he is a law school graduate whose interests in life go far beyond football. He has written a book on pirates and most recently, one on the Apache war chief Geronimo.
 
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