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Re: mystery birds

Subject: Re: mystery birds
From: "John Hartog" <>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 06:55:10 -0000
Here's ten minutes. (9.15MB) Sorry, dial-uppers.

http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-050501-bird-10min.mp3


-John Hartog



> I'm with you Mark, I would like to hear a little longer recording, I
am not
> convinced about the Osprey.
> 
> Martyn


> Well, in this cut the calls are a lot slower & more drawn out but the
> harsher notes (after the 'whiny whistle') are unlike anything I've
heard an
> osprey make. These calls do sound slightly less gray jay like than
in the
> original posting (when the calls started just after the second Song
Sparrow
> song ends).
> 
> Is there more of that call to assist in a determination?
> 
> Mark Phinney


> > Is this the one you are thinking is a Gray Jay.
> > 
> > http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-050501-9am-bird-b.mp3
> > 
> > I was thinking maybe it's an Osprey.
> > I read that Gray Jays sometimes mimic hawks, so maybe it's one
> > mimicking an Osprey.
> > 
> > -John Hartog
> > 






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