Coyote Dawn Patrol??

False alarm…

The sound we heard was a pair of Barred Owls. That’s what I get for being startled out of a sound sleep and standing on the front porch making a recording in the pre-dawn hours.

Waldo Asquith of Charlottesville made the right call. The sounds we heard this morning were not coyotes, they were Barred Owls and you can verify this from a recording on the birds.cornell.edu site.