Hello,
At the suggestion of Peter Vickery I went to check out the EASO hot spot in York, ME., hopefully to find juvenile birds begging food from parents. I did this two days ago on the 3rd.
Brian, my coworker was with me. We went first to Darcy St. and played a tape quietly so as not to disturb the neighborhood. We did not hear or see any EASO. So I went to Edison Dr. which is in another hotspot, York Housing Village Walking Paths, http://ebird.org/ebird/hotspot/L4440321 Edison Dr. is a walking path/road between open and wooded swamp, with some open water.
A bird from the west side and across the swamp responded. The bird flew closer and continued to call, and as I am recording a dog started to howl and coyotes joined in and it drowned out the poor owl. The first recording is # 31987301 and 20 and 22 seconds there is a yelp call, or different call than normal. I was hoping this is a juvenile. What do you think??
The same bird, I assume, moved to a tree on east side of the trail and started to call (#7311), as it was calling I heard another bird calling at the same time so I walked south to get to where I was between them. The second bird was calling from the wooded swamp closer to Darcy and Boban. From the first to the last recording took 5 minutes, 11:43 to 11:48
Last night we went to both places and walked more of the trial and did not hear or see any birds, or dogs, or coyotes, just the traffic noise from Rt. 95, and frogs.
I put a recording on my Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22247688@N04/28479268700/in/dateposted/
The checklist that has recording are here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S30965564
Happy birding
Andy Aldrich
North Berwick
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