Patco
02-11-2004, 00:10
As mentioned in a Coyote forum, there is at least one account of an owl attack on a human. Almost every night in the mountains I hear owls up in the hollers and someone needs to tell me what kind makes this call: (it resembles a chimpanzee) [softly] oooo-ahhhh ooo-ahhhh [a little louder] hooo-hooo-hooo-ooooo-ahhhhh (then once they are answered and the conversation gets really going the volume is blasted) HOOO-AHHH AH-AH AH-AH AH-AH HA-HA HA-HA HAAAAAA! Once in the Pisgah forest we were enjoying our campfire and an owl swooped into the camp and lit in a tree just over our heads. It looked around a bit then silently swooped on down the ravine. At 3 AM they lit over my tent and went to screeching at each other like bloody murder. Is this a screech owl by chance?