Date: 10/31/24 3:41 pm From: Daniel Mason <millipede1977...> Subject: come back you...
Those birds... here one second, gone the next. Sitting in my room today, I heard a loud call. SORT of similar to a flicker(how do you type out that sound? I hate trying to describe sounds... ha) but, how do I describe that it didn't quite seem right. Was different. This was through a mostly closed window, but how loud it was suggests that it was right outside the house somewhere close. Aside from the sound seeming different, it repeated at least 3 times, much faster than I'd ever known a flicker to call. Three calls within 5 seconds, I'd bet. Typically, I hear flickers calling once here... and once there, with more than 5 seconds between calls. That's what I personally, typically, hear. This was just so different... The only thing that came to mind was American tree sparrow. I really want to call it that. More than I want to call it that, I NEED a picture of one. :) I went out the back door(other side of our small house) with my phone in hand and played the calls. My son was out there catching bugs for his toads. I asked him if he had heard something like that. He said yeah, and said it was over that way. But, it had already stopped. Whatever it was had already moved on. In a way, that's another thing that has me leaning towards the sparrow. I didn't hear any flickers anywhere in the area. I really don't think it was a flicker, but outside of the tree sparrow, that's the nearest thing I could think of to describe it. In case you want to frustrate me more, are there any other bird calls(not common around here, but possible) that I might consider? I wonder what's on the move today after that front came through. I should have been out actively birding today. Too much to do. :(