Barn Owl hooting (1 Viewer)

[Euan Buchan]

About 15 mins ago while watching TV very low I could hear a Barn Owl hooting I didn't bother looking as I know I'd neve see it. It's exciting to hear but also quite frightening. I rember lying in bed trying to sleep & could hear one it's quite a frighting feeling but you know it's a bird out there

 

[matt green]

Could it have possibly been a tawny owl?

Never heard a barn owl hoot before,though I have heard one squeal,often at me while watching it!

Matt

 

[nirofo]

About 15 mins ago while watching TV very low I could hear a Barn Owl hooting I didn't bother looking as I know I'd neve see it. It's exciting to hear but also quite frightening. I rember lying in bed trying to sleep & could hear one it's quite a frighting feeling but you know it's a bird out there

Hi

It was probably a male Tawny Owl you heard hooting, Barn Owls usually screech.

nirofo.

 

[amelia1730]

Hi

It was probably a male Tawny Owl you heard hooting, Barn Owls usually screech.

nirofo.

I heard a Tawny owl hooting yesterday - mid morning. Did it have insomnia??

 

[joannec]

I heard a Tawny owl hooting yesterday - mid morning. Did it have insomnia??

This does sometimes happen. I know of a place in the country where a tawny roosted in an evergreen tree in someones garden and every morning at about 11:00 he would hoot two or three times. The lady whose house it was said it was so regular that she could almost set her watch by it. Pretty unusual all the same though, I think.

Joanne

 

[KnockerNorton]

I heard a Tawny owl hooting yesterday - mid morning. Did it have insomnia??

My local birds hoot throughout the day in summer.

 

[Euan Buchan]

Yeah Tawney Owl sorry about that my mistake

 

[nirofo]

Tawny Owls are just starting to re-inforce their breeding territories for the new season, the calls you are hearing are the male probably trying to re-establish his bond with the female. They could be nesting quite soon and have eggs as early as February, though early March is the usual time.

nirofo.

 

[Nina P]

I have a few Tawny Owls Hooting at the moment, and one of them has gone all croaky, does that mean it's the offspring of the old owl I used to have with its husky hoot. I used to call him the Tawny owl with the sore throat, but he has been silent for two years now, so you can imagine my surprise at hearing a new husky hooter in the old fellas Ash tree! Mind you there are around five males hooting around me currently, nice to hear a healthy population of them.
There is one Barn Owl who is screechihng on occasional nights, I hope he decides to set up breeding nearby, it has been a few years sice I was able to actually see one here. It won't be long before the long eared owl starts calling, usually in March, so I am listening for the Boooo, Boooo, to reverberate all around. One gave my husband a shock as it buzzed him in the car on his way home from work last week, they are much bigger than you imagine, especially when they swoop over the car, drop in front of the screen before lifting up again! Spectacular to have it happen though!

 

[sooseee]

Tawnies are hooting and 'ewipping' to each other at first light and in the evening here in North Devon- wonderful sight of a Barn Owl hovering about 3 ft from my car above the hedgerow a few days ago.Was able to watch for several minutes as he/she was hunting- hovering then flying on a few yards.The best sighting I've ever had!

 

[Nina P]

Isn't it wonderful when you see them quartering the fields with their typical hovver swoop, across the hedgerows! Lucky you, there are too few of them around currently, you and I must be the very lucky ones eh?

 

[nirofo]

I have a few Tawny Owls Hooting at the moment, and one of them has gone all croaky, does that mean it's the offspring of the old owl I used to have with its husky hoot. I used to call him the Tawny owl with the sore throat, but he has been silent for two years now, so you can imagine my surprise at hearing a new husky hooter in the old fellas Ash tree! Mind you there are around five males hooting around me currently, nice to hear a healthy population of them.
There is one Barn Owl who is screechihng on occasional nights, I hope he decides to set up breeding nearby, it has been a few years sice I was able to actually see one here. It won't be long before the long eared owl starts calling, usually in March, so I am listening for the Boooo, Boooo, to reverberate all around. One gave my husband a shock as it buzzed him in the car on his way home from work last week, they are much bigger than you imagine, especially when they swoop over the car, drop in front of the screen before lifting up again! Spectacular to have it happen though!

The croaky one could be the female answering the male, they make a kewick, kewick call, they never hoooot. The Long-eared Owls should be calling already, they can have eggs in early February.

nirofo.

 

[martin kitching]

I have a few Tawny Owls Hooting at the moment, and one of them has gone all croaky, does that mean it's the offspring of the old owl I used to have with its husky hoot.

Probably a female, which do have a similar call to the male's hoot but not so musical (croakier or hoarser). Sneakily, males may also make the 'kewick' contact call.

martin

 

[Nina P]

Croaky does go Kweek Kweek but then follows with a strangled Hoooo. The previous one was audible for ten years, but I have had two quiet years, until this one started up in the last fortnight.

The long eared hasn't started calling here yet, I am listening intently, but the woodpeckers are constantly drumming right now. I find the normal time for the LE owl to call is end of Feb early March, one has it's perch about four trees down the road from me, so I hear it distinctly during the night, the closest I have heard it Boo, was in the oak tree out the front of my next door neighbours, the boy in there gets really frightened when the LE starts up!