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Re: Bird Call help



Call note and physical description both sound like Great Crested
Flycatcher to me.

Bill Sanderson





Alex Netherton wrote:
> 
> 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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