I grew up in Northern Germany and recall walking out of our house in the
morning and hearing a (Eurasian) Curlew. Now curlews are birds of meadows,
moors and marshes, but not of a backyard with fruit trees! It turned out to
be a European Starling sitting in front of its nest box in our cherry tree,
flailing its wings and doing a number of imitations. Another good one, was
the call of the Golden Oriole.
Hans
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 10:07 PM pan <
panmail at mailfence.com> wrote:
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For a couple years while I lived at an inland Seattle location, a
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particularly realistic starling would fool me with Bald Eagle calls, as
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others have noted -- "made you look." More surprising was the semi-regular
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imitation of American Wigeon. Got me every time, hoping I'd get to add a
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fly-over to my yard list. I wondered where he spent that part of the year
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when not with me.
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Alan Grenon
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Seattle
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