Subject: Tin Penny Whistle?
Date: Mar 1 18:21:08 1999
From: Deb Beutler - dbeutler at wsunix.wsu.edu


I agree with Tom Foote; we need more information. What the heck does a
penny whistle sound like?

Deb Beutler
Dept. of Zoology
Washington State University
Pullman, Whitman Co., WA

dbeutler at wsunix.wsu.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Foote <footet at elwha.evergreen.edu>
To: Mary Shane <mshane at techline.com>
Cc: 'Tweeters Post' <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: Tin Penny Whistle?


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>
>On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Mary Shane wrote:
>
>> I'm very much the amateur on this forum--but I'm hoping you'll indulge me
>> with an answer to my puzzle:
>>
>> What's the bird I hear now in the forest that sounds like a tin penny
>> whistle?
>>
>Mary--
>
> hmm-mmmmm... that's not a lot to go on. Some birds mimic
> other bird calls.. so-oo-oo
>
> we need to know if it's one continuous note you hear..
> or is the call broken up in more than one note..if so,
> how many... i.e., Great Horned Owl can be 5 notes
> in a syncopated fashion.. hoo HOO hoo hoo hoo, and
> then repeated with the emphasis on the second 'hoo'
> gradually tapering downward..
>
> is it shrill? etc
>
> give us more info and surely someone will jump in and
> offer some speculation.. :)
>
> Tom
>
>