Tweets,
Ah, the trials of trying to identify birds described
to you by non-birders ...
A buddy of mine knew I birded, and kept hearing this
bird call at night. He described it as very loud,
repeating single note, almost like a yowling cat, all
night long and occasionally in the morning and early
evening. Always from the same spot, about 50 yards
across a field near a neighbors house, seemingly in a
large Cedar tree. He and another neighbor had been
trying to figure out what it was.
I was thinking N Pygmy-Owl, and sent him to a web site
with the call, and he identified it as such,
tentatively. He heard it several nights in a row, so
I decided to go out and try to see it and/or call it
in.
So we go out, play some tapes, and get no response.
His wife is not sure that the call is the same, and it
seems not quite right. We never see or hear the bird
that night, and they do not hear it for some days
after.
About a week later, he comes and tells me that the
bird started calling again, and that he had finally
seen it. He heard it, and ran for his field glasses,
then decided he did not need to. The bird was perched
on his neighbors garage roof, calling in plain site,
and he could identify it without binocs from 50 yeard
away.
It was a male Peacock.

Heh, Heh!

Guy

Guy McWethy
Renton, WA
mailto: lguy_mcw at yahoo.com



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