Hang on - is this also a cat? 
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I see your cat and raise, one face of Baby Jebus 
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Barking
No cats were seen in the making of this photo!
I hear an owl regularly on Lowther Hill - suspect we have a resident in Brockley Hill Park - maybe the fella we have pictured. Lovely and makes me (a country kid) feel very nostalgic!
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Not sure if itâs resident but yes this one went from Blythe Hill to Brockley Hill Park so I suspect uses these areas and I guess One Tree Hill, Garthorne and Devonshire nature reserves etc are all good habitats!
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An owl also appeared in January 2016 - just after David Bowie died. I thought it was particularly spooky that the owl came back just when Terry Jones died, given the shared Labyrinth connection.
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Was it like a person doing a low (but loud) whistle? If so, then itâs a male. You may even have heard a female, too, without realising. They sound a bit different, more of a high-pitched noise, kinda like âke-wickâ rather than âhooâ.
Used to enjoy evenings sitting in the garden out in the sticks when I was growing up and calling to them.
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Not sure if this video will upload (only useful for the sound you canât see it in the tree on it) but if so you can hear it.- edit it worked, what do you think, male or female?
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Yeah, definitely a male tawny. For comparison, here is the female:
Would have searched for this last night, but not sure my wife would have appreciated being woken up by owls in the bedroomâŚ
Edit:
They can get noisy when theyâre chatting each other up
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Thanks - yes thatâs a very clear difference!
I loved listening to them! The female definitely has more of a screech & seems to be more vocal when they are together 
At least they do not screech like a barn owlâŚ!
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My husband just said the owl sounds like someone is being attacked! 
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The owl is back on Ebsworth tonight, and he sounds pretty chipper!
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I didnât hear it yesterday, but Iâm genuinely excited to keep an ear out this evening!
A very very loud owl appeared in Whatman this week. It sounded like it was sitting on our window sill! Having googled owl calls this one sounded like a tawny owl and not a barn owl though.
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It was between 10pm and midnight on Monday evening. I think it may have been two, as it sounded like calls to one another. Very close by for sure, almost sounded like they were in the garden!
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About 2am I think on Monday morning. It sounded like it was on our window sill