Subject: yet another flycatcher question!
Date: Jun 30 20:45:36 1999
From: Darryl Thompson - birds at cmc.net
You are the KING of condescending comments and mine was meant as a joke
based on your past claims of expert scientific experience. So all I can say
is congrats on your new busy schedule and I'm glad you took my advice.
At 08:37 PM 06/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Darryl,
>I said that some people have confused the two and asked me about a
>"Olive-sided without the first note" that turned out to be pewee. As for
>getting out more, how can that be? I do point counts and nest searching 50
>hours a week and bird in other free time I have, do you know how to fit
>more hours into a week. Also I don't appreciate your condescending tone.
>
>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, Darryl Thompson wrote:
>
>> 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!
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>> 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
>> >>
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>> W.Darryl Thompson
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W.Darryl Thompson