I keep hearing an owl in the day

I live quite rural to be honest Lillian and by lots of farmland and woods

There are different types of owls, they dont all call twit to woo, some just screech. Barn owls, tawny owls, little owls all sound different. Some will hunt in daylight during summer. Or is there an Owl sanctuary within a few miles of where you live. I once had an owl fly just in front of my windscreen when driving home in day light, it really gave me a fright, its white face zoomed past me.

More please Fanny!

I know you think I am a bit daft Callistemon but it is not a pigeon they are it all bloody day long in my garden, so much so I've written a pigeon dictionary

I think Grandmabatty is correct.
A friend of mine was convinced an owl was on her shed roof......nope,it was a wood pidgeon.

www.british-birdsongs.uk/short-eared-owl/

Go on Fanny, I have heard the story of your parent’s owls but I could happily hear it again.

JaneJudge

Wood pigeons sing song though don't they? I always think they say 'how dare you boogaloo'

It sounds like a tawny owl

The ones round here just do a coo-coo on the same note, when they are getting romantic it seems to be endless.
They sit on the chimney pot and coo sometimes.

I hear an owl at night and it is different.

www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-songs/what-bird-is-that/

owls in a box by the roadside?

JaneJudge

You haven't told me about your parents owls
it's a woo

Sorry, it’s male. Oh, the shame

Yes I often hear them in the daytime.

Chapter 1.

When my mom was pregnant with me, she and my dad were on holiday in Wales.
They were driving on the motorway in the dark, and my mom spotted a cardboard box on the side of the road. She saw two pairs of eyes glowing in the darkness. She presumed that the box contained abandoned kittens; and ordered my dad to do a u turn and go back. They drove several miles, turned around and my dad retrieved the box.
Inside the box were two owlets… ? ?

We hear tawny owls here in the daytime but I’ve never seen one. What I have seen and somewhere have photos of are Little owls, if I’ve got the name right. They are the small, almost square ones, seen mostly at twilight but sometimes in the day sitting on top of the nearest electricity pole.

Male and female owls have different calls. I think its the females that kind of shriek just a single tweeit, and the males go woo-hoo in reply (or it may be the other way round.)
The introduction to the old Midsomer Murders programmes have a lovely examples of these noises. They also have an example of a vixen calling, a single sharp high pitched bark which they use a lot in eerie atmospheric scenes. They use these noises quote a lot throughout the programmes and you find yourself listening for them ......

go onto youtube and type in what does an owl sound like, then you will know that it is an owl.

Ah yes nanna8 I’ve seen tawny frogmouths when I’ve stayed with my daughter. She tells me she’s often seen and heard powerful owls. They sound huge.

I’d love to see an owl again, haven’t seen one for about 5 years. We used to get tawny frogmouths in the garden and the odd powerful owl at night. I have several pics of owls on the walls, lovely lovely creatures.

It’s female then! ?
Ah, this has given me the perfect opportunity to drone on about them! Thank you!
I will be back later to do so.
I used to post long monologues about them on the Night Owls thread, but no one was interested
Probably too tired

You haven't told me about your parents owls
it's a woo

Hello Jane
Is it saying ‘twit’ or ‘woo’?
I must have told you about my parents tawny owls?
(Please say I haven’t! )

hmm I wonder if it is perching to watch the rodents flee the fields then? that seems quite likely?

They do hunt in daylight if they have to. Occasionally see a barn owl round here during the day.

My husband has confirmed he keeps hearing it too. They have been harvesting the fields and cutting all the hedges and footpaths back (it was like a jungle everywhere this year!)

I've occasionally heard owls here during the day. Definitely not wood pigeons. Maybe the owl has been disturbed by tree pruning or other work.

JaneJudge- ??