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Post by Kimby on Mar 18, 2010 14:19:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 21:00:56 GMT
You are welcome Kimby! I need to do a thread on them. If only I had a decent zoom on my camera...to better capture!! We currently have two houses full and also, some hollowed out gourds that I grew also occupied by them.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 18, 2010 22:38:19 GMT
I can hear my cat scratching itself.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 18, 2010 22:43:15 GMT
Speaking of cats, I was trying to identify the mysterious bird calls I've been hearing all day, using the www.enature.com/fieldguides site, and both cats came rocketing into the computer room to try to locate the birdies on the desktop.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 18, 2010 22:57:24 GMT
;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2010 0:03:46 GMT
That is funny Kimby. So,did you ID the mysterious bird call? I have one here,that I've been trying to ID for sometime now. I only hear it in the early morning hours usually when I am on my walk,always in the same general area. It's like he or she is greeting me good morning!
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Post by Kimby on Mar 19, 2010 14:57:24 GMT
No, unfortunately. I thought it was either a Golden-crowned Kinglet or a Yellow Rumped Warbler (Audubon Warbler, formerly), but neither call sounds right. Of course, the Yellow Rump call on the website could be the Eastern form, formerly Myrtle Warbler, so I'll have to investigate further. If you have any idea what TYPE of bird is calling (warbler, vireo, thrush, etc.) you can use the www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=1 site to hear all the calls for a particular group one after the other to sniff out the culprit.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2010 16:07:40 GMT
Years ago I saw a tv documentary about migratory birds which pointed out the wonderful fact that birds have regional accents. The most obvious case in my experience is the boat-tailed grackle. There are scads of them in S.Texas and quite a few here as well. They sound completely different from each other.
Somewhere I posted a wav of the house finch song and call to illustrate how the ones around my house sound. Really, the sounds my local guys make are much prettier than the wav sample.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 19, 2010 16:22:04 GMT
I have noticed the regional accents of cardinals (Wisconsin vs. Florida - we don't have them in Montana) and osprey - I can "talk" to the osprey in Florida (by whistling their call) and really catch their attention, Montana's osprey just ignore me. (Kind of like the French ignoring someone who attempts their language with a bad accent!)
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2010 13:42:24 GMT
Oh -- that's wonderful, Kimby! What other bird calls can you do?
One spring I had a cardinal in the tree in front of where I lived. He called and called for a mate, but never got one, so kept up his call all summer. It got to be really annoying -- sounded like birdybirdybirdybirdy birdybirdybirdybirdy.
Here's the dawn chorus at my house this morning at @6 -- loud!
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Post by rikita on Mar 25, 2010 22:26:13 GMT
i can hear some japanese news program (from my computer)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2010 21:22:18 GMT
Mating songbirds all day...it is so beautiful.
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Post by rikita on Mar 26, 2010 23:07:59 GMT
well better than the sound of mating neighbours, anyway, i guess (not that that is what i hear...) can't hear that many birds here, but during the day a lot of children on the playground outside.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2010 9:47:38 GMT
well better than the sound of mating neighbours, anyway, i guess (not that that is what i hear...) can't hear that many birds here, but during the day a lot of children on the playground outside. My first good laugh of the day is the sound I hear after reading this Rikita. Thank you!
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Post by paristraveler on Mar 28, 2010 20:14:23 GMT
My parakeet, Cloud, quietly talking to himself, sounding like, "Tictictictictic, toytoytoytoytoytoy..." He seems to only go into this routine when the TV is on, then, when I turn it down to hear him he immediately stops. Urghg! I imitate him, and he turns around and looks at me. He has had more success at training me to speak his language than I have had teaching him to speak mine.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 21:53:38 GMT
Right now the dog sneezing...
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Post by Kimby on Mar 30, 2010 7:21:44 GMT
Oh -- that's wonderful, Kimby! What other bird calls can you do? Well, I can do cardinals (Wisconsin dialect) and a pretty credible whippoorwill. I used to be able to do a loon call by blowing across my thumbs, but I've lost that one from lack of practice. I recognize that call from the Florida cardinals... My cat, Mo, who was sitting on my lap when I listened to your dawn chorus really liked it, especially the roosters, a sound he is unfamiliar with as none of our neighbors has chickens. (Thank god!)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2010 10:51:02 GMT
More birdsong here...the dawn song of the Purple Martins.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 30, 2010 16:01:45 GMT
Kitties growling at each other. After weeks of peaceful detente, kitty aggression has returned to this household. And I think it's my fault. Last night I entered a closed-off room briefly then closed the door to return to the computer. Hearing strange noises, I checked out the whole lower level to see what was going on, with Mia at my heels meowing. Perhaps it is the neighbor's cat outside on the deck, or the raccoons who come in the night to eat the birdseed dropped from the feeder above the deck? But nothing seemed amiss so I returned to the computer. After this happened twice, I realized that Mo didn't seem interested in the noises. In fact he wasn't anywhere to be found. Until I suddenly remembered my brief visit to the locked room and rushed upstairs to open the door. Sure enough, I'd trapped my kitty boy (curiosity kills the cat). And when he rushed out, the first thing the two kitties did was attack each other. They've been growling and hissing ever since, though we all did drop into an exhausted coma on the bed for a few hours.
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Post by rikita on Mar 30, 2010 21:45:19 GMT
every now and then the sound of a car, else just the computer.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 31, 2010 14:22:35 GMT
Male robins screeching at each other as they set up their territories. In the snow. (Yes, winter has returned.)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2010 10:29:14 GMT
Just the sound of my radio and the newspaper being delivered up and down the street. The birds aren't up yet.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 2, 2010 17:16:16 GMT
For casi ;-) I saw (heard) TWO of them yesterday. Spring cleaning the great outdoors.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 3, 2010 6:08:43 GMT
Today was amazing. Because I didn't feel well, I stayed home all day, spending part of the time in the hammock on the porch. It was TOTALLY DEVOID OF HUMAN SOUNDS all day long! Every once in a while I'd hear a dog bark in the distance, and there was lots of birdsong, but that was it. I doubt five vehicles went up the road all day long.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2010 10:16:32 GMT
Kimby,how many of these f'n photos are you going to post? ;)Every thread I open has one,jeez!! You really are in a "let's F with casimira mood here". Anyway,as I was trying to post, and was thrown off, again ,I can hear the approach of the sanitation crew coming to pick up the garbage. I would run down and try to take a pic however,in the process would awaken every sleeping beast in the house and neighbors so I will put off.
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Post by Jazz on Apr 3, 2010 13:20:12 GMT
ah...the image of 'Montana Man and Leaf Blower' has been seared into my brain. I think I'll be able to sketch him from memory.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2010 10:00:13 GMT
LOL!!
Fog horns up on the river....
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Post by Kimby on Apr 10, 2010 20:08:10 GMT
Kimby,how many of these f'n photos are you going to post? ;)Every thread I open has one,jeez!! You really are in a "let's F with casimira mood here". . I'm done now, casi, so you and Jazz can unlax. ;-)
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Post by gertie on Apr 11, 2010 0:25:52 GMT
I hear birdies twittering outside. My street is in a way rather interesting as to sounds because I live across the street from a school. In the morning I hear car doors slamming, the occasional mom calling after a child. In the afternoon the occasional playground noise filters round the building here and there. If a class comes out front, which occasionally happens, then the chatter of young ones. In the afternoon, shouts of glee, laughter, car doors slamming. From close of school until next open, the street is very quiet, so much so I can often identify neighbors by the sound of their car passing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 11:01:06 GMT
Freight trains,fog horns,early morning birdsong,Sunday newspapers being delivered and the errant church bell is back...trying to ring 6,but,stopped at 3 .
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