Oh my what a funny story....
This is most definetly the Hoot Owl we have here.
Cannot believe the Huge wingspread on these birds!
In Northern CA at Grandmother's, we had hundreds of small owls that made the most awful Screetch & gumbled cocaphony of wierd hair raising noises all night for years that Grandpa invited his sons to come one week end & 'thin' the population.
I was just a small kid, but remember the screaming & odd noises were constant, all night long.
The family of birds lived in 2 big Oaks in Grandpa's yard...and we could spot what seemed like hundreds of pairs of owl eyes in the trees at night............
I do not remember much else.
But the population was thinned.
And the recordings of the screetch owl and not a screetch at all, but a soft tweet type chirp noise.
These birds that screamed so aweful it would raise every hair on your body & goose bumps all over as if ice water had been dribbled down the back must have been Barn Owls.
Imagine, walking softly, flash light in hand, into a big huge old creepy spider-web covered barn...and hearing that !!
Scare the day lights right out of ya !!!!!!!!!!!!
Listen here:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/barn_owl/id/nc
Makes me goose pimply all over !!!!!!!!!!
