Night Mystery

We were lying in bed, almost asleep, about 10:30 PM. We both heard it, "oo-oo-oo-oo-oo" -- then silence. Owl!! It seemed to take a few seconds to penetrate our consciousness. We both jumped up and looked out, of course, it was too dark to see anything, although not as dark as a couple of weeks ago. So we turned on the porchlight, saw nothing. This morning in the paper were two articles about owls. This is their usual mating, territorial time. A lot of people around the state are hearing them call. Pretty cool. We think it was a boreal owl.