The Nicasio Owls seemed to have a couple hours of "courtship" going on last night. Courtship besides aerial displays, involves screeches, hisses, twittering, chasing the female. Later we will see branch displays of preening, chittering, mounting, and more. In my humble opinion this video will show some of the courting between Salt and Pepper on the evening of Feb 9. I didn't put all the screeches, etc. in because this went on from 7:44pm to almost 10pm.
Pepper is on the side branch, if you listen very carefully you will hear low twittering in the background, then the raspy hissing. You will also see what I believe is Salt coming down off the roof to the front branch (where Pep is sitting, just out of sight) you can hear him chase her. At 8:34pm when Pepper takes off from side branch that is the last of visual sighting until 3:15am when with a screech Pepper is back on side branch and leaves again at 5:38am.
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