Owl date!! Having clicked over to your post, what a cool experience for you! :D (And I hope the balcony bird was okay ...)
Yeah, I looked up owl calls afterwards and it was definitely an owl date, because the nearer one was a deep "HOO HOO HOO" and the farther had a lighter, twitter-ier quality, and from the recorded calls, the deeper was a female owl and the higher with a warble was a male. (Which goes to show what I get for making sexist assumptions about owls.) So I think it's likely that they were having a pleasant owlish nighttime hoot-off for spring baby-owl-making purposes. :D As you do, when you are an owl.
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Yeah, I looked up owl calls afterwards and it was definitely an owl date, because the nearer one was a deep "HOO HOO HOO" and the farther had a lighter, twitter-ier quality, and from the recorded calls, the deeper was a female owl and the higher with a warble was a male. (Which goes to show what I get for making sexist assumptions about owls.) So I think it's likely that they were having a pleasant owlish nighttime hoot-off for spring baby-owl-making purposes. :D As you do, when you are an owl.