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Message: <blockquote data-quote="romillyh" data-source="post: 1639421" data-attributes="member: 37228">A surprise for you. There are two owls in your recording. Listen carefully towards the end, and at 0:48 and 0:52 you will hear the second owl responding with quiet, very short and rather hoarse croaks. You can hear it's in a different position from the first owl, which is indeed a female. My take on the recording is that you have a female calling her mate, or possibly another female companion. This owl flies in -- hence the increasing excitement from the female after 0:45 -- and makes these little sounds after landing. Whether the second owl is male or female is impossible to tell as it sounds as if it has lost its voice almost entirely. But basically a very common situation as a pair of tawnies fly round their patch at night and need to relocate each other. No alarm calls involved here imho!I hope it turns out you have a male-female pair. With luck the second owl will recover his/her voice some time and you will be able to tell. Males having problems with their hoot voices doesn't seem to be uncommon.romillyh<a href="http://www.godsownclay.com" target="_blank">www.godsownclay.com</a></blockquote>