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Re: Bird Call help



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

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