all owls make different sounds
The Marie Fleche Memorial Library held Owl Stories on Wednesday, July 26 at 10 a.m. Kristen Volpi from the Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge read a story about owls and showed children a Screech owl and a Barred owl.
Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge is located in Medford. During the program, Volpi said Cedar Run seeks to preserve wildlife and habitats through education, conservation and rehabilitation. She asked the children several questions about owls and told them owls are nocturnal. Before introducing the owls to the children, she said everyone had to pretend it was night.
Volpi led the children through a skit where they pretended to be going through the forest and looking for owls in the trees.
After going through the skit, Volpi read the book “Owl Babies” to the children. The children were curious about the sounds an owl makes. As it turns out, every owl makes a different sound. Volpi played the sounds of the Great horned owl, the Eastern Screech owl and the Barred Owl. The Great horned owl makes the typical “hoo, hoo” sound. A Screech owl makes a sound similar to a horse’s whinny. Volpi said the Barred owl makes a sound like “who cooks for you, who cooks for you all.”
Two owls were shown to the children, a Screech owl and a Barred owl. Once the owls came out, the children were excited and fascinated.
When asked what she thought of the owls, Frankie Hall, 5, said “they were pretty.” She was also looking forward to touching the feathers were available for the children to touch.
The turnout for the owl stories exceeded what was expected. Betty Velie, the library’s coordinator for events, said, “We originally had 31 who were signed up, but there were more that showed up.”
