Subject: yet another flycatcher question!
Date: Jun 30 19:42:56 1999
From: Darryl Thompson - birds at cmc.net


My Dear Scott; so you think a Western Wood Peewee could sound like the two
note vocalization of an Olive-sided Flycatcher-see I told you, you should
get out more!






At 02:43 PM 06/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>This is proibably not it, but to some people the pewee call has been
>described as an olive-sided without the opening quick note. I guess
>three-beers, pee-wee could sound similar. So I would vote for a
>Olive-sided doing a partial call or a W.W pewee.
>
>Scott Downes
>sdownes at u.washington.edu
>Seattle WA
>
>"Birds don't read bird books. (That's why they are seen doing things they
>are not supposed to do)." -Mary Wood
>
>
>On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Lauralee Smith wrote:
>
>>
>> I wish I hadn't accidentally deleted that wonderfully detailed
>> posting by, I believe, Wayne Weber a few days ago -- the answer
>> to this question could have been in it! I'm wondering if there is
>> perhaps a different sort of flycatcher, whose call is
>> identical to the infamous "quick three beers" of the olive-sided
>> flycatcher, but without the "quick" -- in other words, just the
>> two notes? Otherwise, the inflection and delivery were identical.
>>
>> Lauralee Smith
>> North Seattle
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
W.Darryl Thompson