Re: Trying to id a bird by call only

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:16:41 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
<cherylisaak@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On 6/27/08 12:46 PM, in article
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>"Leon Fisk" <lfisk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

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>> How much of a pause between each veer?
>> 
>> Robins make a noise that I would describe as a high pitched
>> "seee, seee, seee,". Quite often I hear it early morning and
>> late evening. Maybe a 2-4 second pause between each seee
>> sound.
>Less pause - maybe half a second and not close to anything I can find on
>line for a robins calls.
>
>C

It was a long shot, I've never heard Robins use this call in
that rapid a sequence. Two of my better books on bird song
describe this sound as Cedar Waxwing like. One thinks that
it is used during evening roost flights, but I've never
heard it used in that way.

Get that recorder out and get us a sample to ponder over ;-)

-- 
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids  MI/Zone 5b
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