The deer visited this morning - I heard them crashing through the underbrush. Then two short barking sounds. I've heard deer make one short alarm call that sounded similar, but never two in a row like this. Then suddenly the sound was across the valley. Ah, then: a barking bird.
But what bird barks like this? It sounded like a dog barking far away, and muzzled. Then I watched my owl (a great horned owl I've named Henrietta Hooter, in honor of my cat she ate) fly into her tree in my yard. And then she barked. And she's there barking still, as I write this.
I recognizer her voice, now. But not this song. Why two short barks, and not the sonorous five legato notes she usually sings?
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