Subject: Bird calls
Date: Jul 11 09:10:40 1999
From: Dan Logen - pdl at whidbey.net
How about the "drink-your-tea" song of the Eastern Towhee?
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> From: Vikcha at aol.com
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Bird calls
> Date: Saturday, July 10, 1999 11:30 AM
>
> 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?