Comments on: Best time to hear Coyotes, Wolves, and Owls? http://www.natureguystudio.com/blog/2010/01/21/best-time-to-hear-coyotes-wolves-and-owls/ Natureguy Studio news, information, & nature related blurbs. Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:53:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: natureguy http://www.natureguystudio.com/blog/2010/01/21/best-time-to-hear-coyotes-wolves-and-owls/comment-page-1/#comment-2480 natureguy Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:53:39 +0000 http://www.natureguystudio.com/blog/?p=114#comment-2480 Yes Melissa, the Barred Owl calls with the "Who cooks for you". Finding Owls in quiet locations at the right time is the problem. I will keep you idea in mind for future albums. Yes Melissa, the Barred Owl calls with the “Who cooks for you”. Finding Owls in quiet locations at the right time is the problem. I will keep you idea in mind for future albums.

]]> By: Melissa Hellen http://www.natureguystudio.com/blog/2010/01/21/best-time-to-hear-coyotes-wolves-and-owls/comment-page-1/#comment-2251 Melissa Hellen Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:30:09 +0000 http://www.natureguystudio.com/blog/?p=114#comment-2251 was just commenting on this in a note I left on an order I just submitted. I was going to suggest Wolf Park, if its still there for wolf sounds in the winter. Its a research place first and foremost, and they invite people to come up and help them with the count every year, as well as the other work. Forget if it's in IN or IL, but a google search would surely turn it up if you were interested. My favorite strigidae family owl is the charming little saw whet, but my heart belongs to the tytos, especially our beautiful, white barn owl. Our clicking, hissing,screaming-fit-to-make-your-hair-fall-out barn owl. Love those inscrutable solid-black eyes. However, neither of these are any good for recording and listening. You need a big old booming horned or great grey owl for that. Will you please make a CD that's all owls? I know your secret reason why you haven't yet: squatting behind a bush all night is tough enough without adding cold wind and perhaps a wet bottom into the equation. well, suck it up, Nature Guy!!! Just imagine the satisfaction you'd feel presenting a CD of all owls, . . . You'd have to have your favorite, then one that's all screechies cooing to each other across a crowded pasture--those two you could probably collect in good weather, but you might have to suffer a bit for the great horned and great grey. I'm not too familiar with the saw whet's mating calls, but I know they favor better weather and tend to fly south-ish in the winter, so maybe that one might not be so painful... Which one's the "Who-cooks-for-you?-Who?-Who?" owl? Is that your barred? Anyway, living in hope (of that CD!) Melis P.S. : remember, foxes also mate when the owls do--and unless I'm quite wrong, they have a much larger fan club out there than the coyote, due to being less harmful, much less aggressive toward humans and their animals, and just SO darned cute. In fact, when spending time in the wild, the biggest problem with foxes is often getting them to leave you alone and go back to acting like wild animals (goofy things). But they make really interesting yammering and whining noises when 'in the mood'. Woud certainly liven up a Winter recording. In fact foxes and barn owls together would sound like the sound track to a Hieronymus Bosch painting-probably not the best combo!-M was just commenting on this in a note I left on an order I just submitted. I was going to suggest Wolf Park, if its still there for wolf sounds in the winter. Its a research place first and foremost, and they invite people to come up and help them with the count every year, as well as the other work. Forget if it’s in IN or IL, but a google search would surely turn it up if you were interested.

My favorite strigidae family owl is the charming little saw whet, but my heart belongs to the tytos, especially our beautiful, white barn owl. Our clicking, hissing,screaming-fit-to-make-your-hair-fall-out barn owl. Love those inscrutable solid-black eyes.

However, neither of these are any good for recording and listening. You need a big old booming horned or great grey owl for that. Will you please make a CD that’s all owls? I know your secret reason why you haven’t yet: squatting behind a bush all night is tough enough without adding cold wind and perhaps a wet bottom into the equation. well, suck it up, Nature Guy!!! Just imagine the satisfaction you’d feel presenting a CD of all owls, . . . You’d have to have your favorite, then one that’s all screechies cooing to each other across a crowded pasture–those two you could probably collect in good weather, but you might have to suffer a bit for the great horned and great grey. I’m not too familiar with the saw whet’s mating calls, but I know they favor better weather and tend to fly south-ish in the winter, so maybe that one might not be so painful…
Which one’s the “Who-cooks-for-you?-Who?-Who?” owl? Is that your barred?
Anyway, living in hope (of that CD!)

Melis

P.S. : remember, foxes also mate when the owls do–and unless I’m quite wrong, they have a much larger fan club out there than the coyote, due to being less harmful, much less aggressive toward humans and their animals, and just SO darned cute. In fact, when spending time in the wild, the biggest problem with foxes is often getting them to leave you alone and go back to acting like wild animals (goofy things). But they make really interesting yammering and whining noises when ‘in the mood’. Woud certainly liven up a Winter recording. In fact foxes and barn owls together would sound like the sound track to a Hieronymus Bosch painting-probably not the best combo!-M

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