There is a song by Jerry Jeff Walker which invariably comes
to mind while I am pishing....

Several years ago, I put together information on pishing in a
webpage still available at:
http://home.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/pishing/pishing.html

I generally have pretty good success with a mix of pishing and
pygmy owl tooting. Some days work better than others. It usually
works best when a few chickadees or fox sparrows help out.

Kissy noises make a very dependable Barn Owl call.

> Finally, there has been some talk over the years about pishing being an
> American method, one that birders elsewhere don't know and--rather surprising,
> I think--that birds on other continents simply don't respond to pishing the way
> many American birds do. So I'd appreciate any notes you can give me about your
> experiences in this regard.

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

Common species are more common than rare species
--- Dennis Paulson in
_Shorebirds of the PNW_