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Re: Bird Call help
- To: LisaBirder@aol.com
- Subject: Re: Bird Call help
- From: Alex Netherton <danetherton@juno.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 08:58:47 -0400
- Cc: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
I heard the same thing yesterday at the Spruce Pine Wal Mart yesterday,
and been hearing it for weeks there. So busy I have no time to look. Best
description of the call I have heard.
On Thu, 4 May 2000 12:06:12 EDT LisaBirder@aol.com writes:
> Hi there!
>
> A few weeks ago, while at my mom's house, I heard a bird that I did
> not recognize. I caught a glimpse of it, and I'm afraid all I can
> say is that it was medium sized, like a cardinal or smaller, and
> kind of an all over drab brown-gray color.
>
> Last evening I heard the same call in my yard, but after fifteen
> minutes of seraching with the binos, could not locate it.
>
> The call is very loud and clear, and I can most accurately describe
> it as the final note of a Bobwhite's call. Like "Poor Bob WHITE"
> with just the "WHITE." It also sounds sort of like someone whistling
> for a taxi. :-)It either calls two of the same note, with the second
> slightly louder, or just a single call. Again, the call is very loud
> and clear.
>
> I wish I could offer more, but that's all I have. Oh! When I saw the
> bird at my mom's house, it was up in a scaggy pine, right near the
> red bellied woodpecker house I have installed there.
>
> Hope someone knows what I'm seeing/hearing!
>
> Lisa G.
> Lisabirder@aol.com
> Raleigh
Alex Netherton
The Appalachian Naturalist
Asheville, NC
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