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Re: whips, bobwhites



I think I remember that Chuck's eyeshine was orange or red in the bird I
tracked with a flashlight (shame on me) on Tybee Island GA, and the eyeshine
of Whips on Green River Road, Henderson County NC were rather silvery green
***but I am probably wrong***, so take this with the usual grain of salt.
When I was a child (yes, I was one once, and regularly get accused of it
now, some decades later) I was taught by an uncle who was an excelent
woodsman to whistle the female Bobwhite's call. I called a male to within 10
feet of me. However, that was when this neighborhood was a lot wilder, the
church had not turned their back lot into a parking lot, and the Pterodactyl
could be counted on your Life List.....
The call, for those interested, was described by my uncle as "partchee" with
the first whistle about the same pitch as the male's call, and the second
part slurring up rather quickly. I suppose I could record it and sent the
file to anyone who wants to try it...
The last Bobwhite I heard was at Mount Olive Church - off Town Mountain Road
in Asheville near the Parkway - on my wedding day almost 7 years ago.

Alex Netherton, the Appalachian Naturalist
alex@alexnetherton.com
Asheville, NC
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mountainbirding/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/appalachian-naturalist-news/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/carolinanaturalist/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/carolinaponds/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leah Campbell" <leahcam@lycos.com>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: whips, bobwhites


>>I think the tried and true strategy is to drive slowly down a gravel road
in an area where they are calling - they are known to sit in roads, and you
can pick them up by the reflection of your headlights in their eyes.

Can one distinguish nightjars in the Carolinas by eyeshine color?

>>I, personally, almost always hear Bobwhites rather than see them.

Once I saw a lone bobwhite walking along the field near my yard -- I was
alerted to his presence by a soft clucking sound. I have stumbled upon a
covey in our woods a time or two. I used to hear them daily, but they seem
to have grown scarce.

---
Leah Campbell
Blackstock, SC
leahcam@lycos.com



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