Shirleys Blog » Owls http://blog.shirleywalsh.com Sharing my packet of Life with ya... Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:51:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Short Eared Owl http://blog.shirleywalsh.com/short-eared-owl-934.html http://blog.shirleywalsh.com/short-eared-owl-934.html#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:40:15 +0000 Shirley http://blog.shirleywalsh.com/?p=934 I was woken up at about 5am this morning by the strangest sounding creature.  It was an eerie sound to hear in the dead of night, in the middle of the country (I was at home in Ireland) – I wasn’t sure if it was a fox or an owl, but I just had a look online now and I found out what it was:

Short Eared Owl

The Short-Eared Owl…

I heard a male AND a female.  The female kinda sounded like a scratchy ol’ fox.

Click here to hear what the male sounded like…

And here is what the female sounds like.

I have been reading all about Owls today and fantasising about living in the country again….

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