Subject: [Tweeters] FYI - Alabama Mockingbird?
Date: Apr 2 22:11:23 2009
From: David Barber - dbarber71 at comcast.net


Thanks for all the responses to the mockingbird question. No doubt it
was a mockingbird and I saw it again two more nights.

Otherwise, not much to say about seeing birds here. I was on a culture
trip so not really looking, but did get to show a couple of folks their
first mockingbird and cardinals since I was here with 24 others who
don't travel or watch so much.

Thanks again

David Barber
Vancouver, WA


vogelfreund at comcast.net wrote:
> When I was a teen in Sarasota, Florida, what might be called night
> whippoorwills were really Chuck-will's-widows. Sometimes I could see
> them backlit while chasing bugs around the tops of cabbage palms (for
> example). When I was visiting my mother and step-father (1978-79) in
> the South Miami area, I thought the serenadings by night-singing
> mockingbirds were great entertainment. But my step-father threatened
> to shoot the one keeping him awake outside his bedroom window (ha ha).
>
> Phil Hotlen
> Bellingham, WA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Barber" <dbarber71 at comcast.net>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:56:00 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: [Tweeters] FYI - Alabama Mockingbird?
>
> I'm sitting outside my hotel at 11:00 pm here listening to this bird
> that sings a variety of tunes. Man at another table tells me it is a
> "Night Whipoorwill". I go looking for the bird in the tree, not
> expecting to see anything. But I do and it looks to me like a
> mockingbird. But it is only streetlit in a leafy tree so I'm not sure,
> but it is certainly not anything in the poorwill/nightjar family.
>
> So the question is: Do mockingbirds sing that late at night?
>
> Thanks
>
> David Barber Vancouver, WA tripping in Birmingham at the Civil Rights
> Institute
>
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