Sunday afternoon I sat at Stewart Park looking out at the relative low bird count. Of interest were two American Wigeons foraging "somewhat" close (I was hoping they'd get closer for better photos, though they never did), and 11 Northern Pintails flying back and forth trying to decide whether to land (again, I had my camera settings poised for them to land right in front of me, but instead they decided to continue north and away). At one point two male Green-Winged Teals appeared, and coincident with their appearance I started hearing short "prrt" calls, reminiscent of tree frog. I checked my Sibley App and sure enough, they were indeed from the GW Teals, a vocalization I'd never heard, or maybe just never noticed, before. (The recording "male lands and peeps NE" has a sequence of them, whereas what I heard were single "peep"s about ten seconds apart, not sure if coming from one of the birds or both in turn.)
Yesterday afternoon while walking around Commonland, a Cooper's Hawk flew to the top of a tree and sat vocalizing for a while, with a "mek mek mek" call I don't think I've heard before. It was reminiscent of Common Gallinule, but in a falcon-like repetitive pattern. The only other Cooper vocalization I remember was at Steve Kress' house a number of years back, which was a single longer call was reminiscent of sapsucker. Also, heard one Pine Siskin singing yesterday morning outside my house, but had no binoculars. Suan -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
