Returning home to Georgia after a long Labor Day weekend visit to the coast, it felt as if we came back to a different place. We left a sunny, very hot dry summer, with temperatures day after day in the mid to upper 90s \u2013 and came back to cool, gray, damp weather with highs in the mid 70s. It\u2019s only a preview of fall, I know \u2013 the heat will return. But it\u2019s nice.<\/p>\n
The change came as the remnants of tropical storm Lee moved up from the Gulf, and here, we only got a little rain, not enough to do much to help the very dry conditions. But the change has been cool enough to open the windows at night \u2013 so last night around 3:00 or 4:00 am, for the first time in months, I heard the calls of a Barred Owl somewhere around our back yard, very near by. I think it was a female. She only hooted twice, two good strong hoooo-uhs<\/em>, and the call seemed to vibrate, almost a purr, that I could feel, as well as hear. Though the call looks so simple when I try to transcribe it into words, it is rich with variations, fluid with low, subtle sounds impossible to capture, like rippling reflections of colors \u2013 mesmerizing to hear, to listen to, and imagine what it might be telling. There\u2019s a world of mystery in that one deep, resonant call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Returning home to Georgia after a long Labor Day weekend visit to the coast, it felt as if we came back to a different place. We left a sunny, very hot dry summer, with temperatures day after day in the mid to upper 90s \u2013 and came back to cool, gray, damp weather with highs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}