Greetings Walt,
This recording sounds so much like the Loggerhead Shrike on my Stokes=20
Western Birds recording that I would have thought that you actually=20
recorded a Shrike rather than a Mockingbird. That actually might be a=20
possibility as both species are similar size and color and might be=20
confused in some light conditions. I've had the experience before=20
where I didn't see hidden the bird vocalizing although it was near or=20
behind the bird I thought I was recording. One reason I wonder if this =
really was a Shrike is the slow pace of the calls. Mockingbirds take=20
their borrowed sounds and jam and rush them together like a high speed=20
rap artist. This bird makes the sound at the leisurely pace of a=20
shrike.
Another Mockingbird story: I had a Mockingbird recorded in the west=20
Utah sagebrush one year that had excellent Blue Jay calls in it's=20
vocabulary. There wasn't a Blue Jay within 1500 miles. I wondered if=20
this bird had spent a previous year in the mid-West. Then I hit on a=20
more likely explanation: This bird had spent the winter down south=20
socializing and learning from fellow Mockingbirds that had learned Blue =
Jay calls from the Mid-West and East. They probably mix it up down=20
south each winter and come back the next spring with new bragging=20
rights.
Cheers All,
Kevin Colver
On Wednesday, June 29, 2005, at 10:05 AM, Walter Knapp wrote:
> A little pump priming to get back to nature recording.
>
> This is a little clip from two hours of a Mockingbird's song I recorded
> at Granite Pass, California in April (recorded before dawn). This is
> sagebrush desert country. I have my own idea just what sound this
> feathered recorder is playing back. This was given 4 times in the two
> hours, two times it was a single repeat, and two were 4 repeats. What
> think Ye?
> http://frogrecordist.home.mindspring.com/naturerecordists/2005-W2-
> 007a.mp3
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> Walt
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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