Too-Whit-Too-Whoo

yagamuffin

So I went out in to the garden for a smoke at about 6:30 this morning and heard what sounded like an owl. It wasn't quite too-whit-too-whoo but very similar and very loud. Never heard (or seen for that matter) an owl in London. Anyone heard or seen this feathered friend before.<div><br></div><div>Oh yeah, may help if I say where it was! In the gardens between Cornwall Road and Connaught Road.</div><div><br></div>

spannabanana

<FONT face=Georgia>I've heard owl's in London before but not round here - but could be very possible! You're very lucky if it was!</FONT>

tosscat

There's a tawny owl that knocks around the upper east side, but that won't be twit twooing, more of a screech.

yagamuffin

Well this was kind of screeching. A bit like the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">rare screaming caterpillar in the Simpsons.</span>

miss annie

We have one on Moray Rd! Not sure what kind, we hear him occasionally and have seen him swooping once. Apparently there are lots on the Parkland Walk.

barebackreader

There are loads of tawny owls in the Granville Rd spinney. They do quite a lot of shrieking. The twit-twooing (only it's more like 'keeee-wick! Woooo!') happens when they're calling and responding to each other. Or to one of my neighbours - there are quite a few who like to make the 'woo' noise when they hear the owls calling. I don't know why confusing owls is such a popular nighttime sport round these parts. 

djmattyoung

this owl made me laugh - <a href="">

Billy Bookcase

A screech would be a Barn Owl. They used to live in St Peter in Chains.<div>There are lots of Tawny Owls around in the Parkland Walk too.</div><div>They hunt over the reservoir and can be heard and sometimes seen on Mountview Rd, Mount Pleasant Villas, Ossian Rd and The Grove--where the allotments are--at night and in the early mornings..</div>

krappyrubsnif

How exciting.    I recently saw a green woodpecker feeding on the grass at the edge of the FP running track.

pie eater

My boyfriend once lost us a pub quiz by insisting that the sound clip which turned out to be an owl was in fact a gorilla.  I doubt you have a gorilla in your garden.

chrisn4

<P>i'm always on the look out for hooters (no pun intended)</P> <P>owls can rotate their heads 270 degrees,a bit like in the film the excorcist.</P> <P>yeah? yeah!</P> <P>any parkland walkers on muntjac watch?</P> <P> </P>