Before a week ago, I had observed Pileated, Hairy, Downy, Flicker, and
Sapsuckers at one point or another (in past years) doing the ‘flicka-flicka’
type interaction where a pair (sometimes M-F, sometimes M-M) were ascending a
pole or tree and playing hide-and-seek while doing this vocalization.
Although Red-bellied Woodpeckers abound in our yard, woods, and bark butter
feeder, it was only a few days ago when I walked out to observe 2 males
ascending a bare tree, with a female in an adjacent tree, one M doing a loud
Wukka-Wukka at the other.
New yard bird vocalization for me (yes, I’m reduced to that now….)
ChrisP
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Chris Pelkie
Information/Data Manager; IT Support
Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
On Mar 10, 2016, at 10:41, Geo Kloppel
mailto:geoklop...@gmail.com>> wrote:
A very light sprinkle, and I'm working with the door open. There sure are lots
of bird voices around my yard this morning! A Song Sparrow seems to be the only
new arrival, unless there are newcomers among the Juncos that are trilling from
all directions. But Cardinals, Robins, Jays, Crows, Ravens, Purple Finches,
Goldfinches, all the recent regulars seem to have found their more exuberant
voices. A Barred Owl is day-hooting from down in the direction of the West
Danby Fire Station, Pileated Woodpeckers are working somewhere quite close, and
a Red-bellied Woodpecker that hangs out around my shop broke from its usual
querrs and chatters for a string of slow woika-woika-woika interaction calls -
perhaps for a mate.
Hundreds of Red-winged Blackbirds have gone over, and a few thousands of Canada
Geese, all turning west-northwest, rather than continuing north toward Ithaca.
I flushed a Ruffed Grouse from the thickets down in the orchard, and I see the
Turkeys have been raking the ground aggressively there. No Fox Sparrows yet...
-Geo
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