Owl is audible at approx 1 sec, 17 sec, 30 sec, & 40 sec. (There was actually about 30 sec between each round of hooting, but I trimmed to remove a bunch of road noise. Why is there so much road noise at 1 AM in Elgin??)
I have no picture! Just that trilling bird call. The full phrase had an up-up-down-down pattern, almost sounding like a wooden mallet running on a xylophone. I wasn’t able to see what was making it so the ID is based on the call alone and what other bird songs I looked up for comparison
There was a bird repeating this call in the distance too.
As I walked underneath this grove of trees, the Corvids perching in the tree would get startled and fly away. Their wing beats and occasional caws could be heard. The many wingbeats were loud and startled me at first.