Who - oo's out there?

Had a great experience the other night.  Crisp, cool, clear evening and the stars were totally awesome again.  No moon, so if you found a dark spot to be you could see the milky way very clearly.  My husband and I had some time to just sit in the back yard and take in the beauty.  As we were sitting there we heard something land in the tree above us and didn't think to much of it.  We have seen all sorts of birds in our back yard from small sparrows and finches, to large birds of prey including hawks and owls.  Because it was dark we couldn't tell what kind of bird was above us, but knew it had to be pretty big because we could hear  the air being pushed about with it's wings.  We continued to star gaze and pretty soon we heard an owl begin to call from a distance off.  We love to hear them and we get very excited when we hear them answering one another.  Imagine our surprise when the "bird" that had landed above us began to call back.  Now we knew who was above us, we had an owl perched over our heads; it seemed oblivious to the fact that we were there and it was calling back and forth with the owl a few blocks away.  Pretty soon there was a third owl that joined them, because we could hear it's call coming from another direction.  We sat there in stunned silence, just listening to the different tones, pitches and lengths of the calls from these three owls.  We then started whispering back and forth about what they might be communicating to one another.  My husband made me giggle, when he suggested, "whoo-oo-oo's out there?"  We finally had to give up and go inside because we were getting cold.  Our owl stayed perched in the tree and didn't move a muscle and even after we made our way inside we could still hear it calling from time to time.  That made both of us smile in a satisfied way.  We love spending time out in God's handiwork any time we get a chance, even if it's in the dark and we don't know for sure "who-oo-oo's out there?"