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Re: Is This a Flicker?(and is this a Downy?)

Subject: Re: Is This a Flicker?(and is this a Downy?)
From: "John Hartog" <>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:19:00 -0000
>  Sounds like some
> kids I know.=20

Maybe Kevin.  The snag was about 15 in. diameter and only about twenty
feet tall, so I suppose a human child could get up in there.  But why
the heck would an adult woodpecker be stuffing bugs through a hole to
a human child??

-John Hartog

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>
>
> On Tuesday, July 26, 2005, at 01:51 PM, John Hartog wrote:
>
> > Thanks for sharing Jerry.  It's amazing what can be learned by
> > sharing recordings with this group.
> >
> > I also happened on a baby woodpecker this week that was
> > constantly complaining through the daylight hours, and I was
> > wondering the same thing - is that normal?  It was nice to learn
> > from Fred Fallon's response to your posting that this is normal
> > behavior for woodpeckers.
> >
> > The one that I heard and recorded is, I believe, either a Hairy or a
> > Downy woodpecker (I still get them mixed up).  In this three
> > minute snippett you can hear the baby constantly complaining
> > while an adult stops by, making purring sounds while checking
> > in ( 2.7 MB):
> >
> > http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-050723-wkpkr.mp3
> >
> > -John Hartog
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In  "Jerry Berrier"
> > <> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > For the past two days, I've been hearing a bird make the same
> > sound
> > > repeatedly all day long.  Today I recorded it, along with an
> > answering call
> > > from a nearby bird.  I'm almost sure they are northern flickers,
> > but I'm
> > > curious to know what others think.
> > > If they are flickers, any idea why one of them would be calling
> > constantly
> > > throughout the day?  I thought mating season was in the
> > spring, and I've
> > > never heard flickers do this before.
> > > I edited this recording with Goldwave, but I was unable to
> > remove much of
> > > the hiss from wind noise.  I'd welcome any suggestions
> > regarding that.
> > > http://www.townisp.com/~jerry.berrier/flickers.mp3
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jerry Berrier
> > >
> > > http://www.townisp.com/~jerry.berrier
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Microphones are not ears,
> > Loudspeakers are not birds,
> > A listening room is not nature."
> > Klas Strandberg
> >
> >
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