Subject: Bird calls
Date: Jul 11 09:01:09 1999
From: Michael Dossett - phainopepla at yahoo.com


Hmm...

It might be the pip--pip--pip call made by our good old friend the
Olive-sided flycatcher.

Michael Dossett
Bothell
Phainopela at yahoo.com

--- Vikcha at aol.com wrote:
> Tweets,
>
> Later this summer I will be taking a trip back to my
> dad's house where I grew
> up in Michigan, along the Chippewa River. One of
> the things I most look
> forward to is canoeing down the river...always an
> incredible variety of
> songbirds, ducks, ospreys, turtles, etc.
>
> For years, I have heard a very distinctive, loud
> bird call echoing through
> the woods along the river, but have never been able
> to identify it. It's a
> sliding 3-note whistle, sounding like the whistle
> some one would use to get
> someone's attention or call their dog: something
> like this:
> ___
> ---_
>
> The last couple of years I haven't heard it at all,
> but will be listening
> hard again and would sure like to know what I might
> be looking for! Any
> ideas?
>
>

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