They can
be quite dangerous to use as Scrubwrens and Brown Thornbills seem to want to
charge straight out at you, so keep your wits about you. Fancy being threatened
by such small species!!
BOCA certainly discourages overuse of them to avoid distress to birds.
Does
anyone know what to do to regain the squeak when all the resin is used up ???
Jacqui
Sheppard
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From:
[On
Behalf Of Tom Wilson
Sent: Saturday, 27 December 2003
4:39 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] Bird
whistlers... any good?
Re the query from Michael Whitehead and
Tom Tarrant's response (26 December), I've had one of those squeakers for a few
years - sometimes it's more effective than the back of my hand, sometimes it
isn't (and I've normally got the squeaker with me - my hands are permanently
attached so I've always got them with me!) - and of course one gets days
when the birds aren't interested in any sounds! I've found that
fairywrens and fantails seem to respond to it best, but have also used it
successfully to bring a Chestnut Rumped Heathwren close on one of the tracks on
West Head in Ku-Ring-Gai NP (northern Sydney).
I've found that with a bit of practice,
one can make quite a wide range of sounds, so can try a variety of squeaks to
see if one can draw something up
Cheers
Tom Wilson
