** Reply to note from tweeters at u.washington.edu Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:08:15 PDT


> For the past several days, there has been something occasionally flying
> over the house, making a call which sounds to me like a Clark's nutcracker.
> I haven't been able to see it yet, but what the heck would a Clark's
> nutcracker be doing at (virtually) sealevel? So what else might I be
> hearing? I can teel you what it's not; no crow I have ever heard makes a
> sound like this, and it's not Caspian terns (just to head off two possible
> suggestions).

About the only thing I could say to your query, Rob, is that there is *NO*
bird that sounds like a nutcracker, at least no North American bird. And yes,
it would be unusual to see a nutcracker at sealevel unless there was a
catastrophic failure in the pine seed crops in the hills.

- Jack



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Jack Bowling
Prince George, BC
jbowling at direct.ca