Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Sora
Date: May 19 15:13:03 2010
From: Doreen Gillespie - dorgilles at gmail.com
You may not even need a Toyota Tacoma for soras:
Many years ago, some friends and I were hanging out near midnight near a
pond in the foothills to the western Wallowas. We'd just been out trying
some owl calls, and we ended up on a hill over the pond, relaxing to the
frogs' calls. Every few minutes, we would laugh out loud at some
particularly amusing frog "belch", and a sora answered us every time.
They apparently respond to a variety of sounds.
Interestingly, the next year I played a tape of sora calls at the same pond
and was answered by a Virginia rail. Are there any former Smilin' O folks on
Tweeters? It was the Obies' pond....
Doreen
dorgilles at gmail.com
Redmond
Message: 7
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 23:29:17 -0700
From: Roger <r_craik at shaw.ca>
Subject: [Tweeters] Sora
To: Tweeters <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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I'll send this again, sorry if it is a duplicate. Having a few ISP mail
problems.
This evening I was stopped beside one of the local marshes listening for
whatever. I started my truck up and before the starter had quit turning
an unseen Sora fired up and started calling so I moved down the road a
bit, shut the motor off and listened. Nothing. Started the motor again
and wham, the Sora starts calling again. I couldn't resist. I shut the
motor off and waited a bit then started the engine again and bingo. It
seems that the sound of a Toyota Tacoma starter is within the response
range of a Sora calls.
Who needs tapes when a good starter motor will do.
Roger Craik
Maple Ridge
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