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koels

To: storm <>
Subject: koels
From: Katherine Bronte <>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:15:44 +1000
Well Said and I agree!!!

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:14 PM, storm <> wrote:

> You don't, you buy ear plugs.
>
> sorry
>
> :-)
>
> cheers
> storm
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  Behalf Of Peter Adderley
> Sent: Monday, 14 September 2009 9:12 PM
> To: 
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] koels
>
>
> I feel bad in writing this email but I am becoming desperate and
> starting to lose sleep.
> How can one make a very insistent Koel um.. "move on"? At present I'm
> feeling that a small metallic projectile might send him to an entirely
> different plane but I choose not to cheat.
> This guy starts at about 2am and carries on relentlessly until first
> light. His Cooee is repeated at between two and three second intervals.
> I've never heard this short regularity before.
>
> Back during 1961 when my sister was studying for her Leaving Certificate
> I took to using a tiny portable cassette recorder. I was younger and
> more nimble during those days but I remember well that blasting a Koel
> with it's own call made him fly off, possibly thinking that another bird
> had already taken that spot.
> I'm right out of ghetto blasters at the moment but wondering if this
> method might still work.
>
> I seriously love bird song, but sheesh there's a bloody limit. ;-)
>
> Now where are those damned Cicadas? My water pistols are loaded.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
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