Another quiet night overall with some day-birds making calls at night. This time it was Pine Siskins calling at 2:40 and again at around 5. There were just two calls that I took to be from a Marbled Murrelet at about 5:45.

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Mystery Call: In a different context, I’m pretty sure I would recognize this call. For some reason I can’t place it in this recording, however. I’m thinking it might be a Pine Siskin, however. Recorded at 01:12. Download Mystery Call

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Pine Siskins This is the better of the two Pine Siskin calls I caught. I’m not sure what they were doing in the middle of the night.
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It was a quiet night overall. I suspect this will be the case for much of the winter. The most interesting thing I noticed was a Bald Eagle calling some distance away a little after midnight. Perhaps it was disturbed by something, or maybe just had a bad dream.

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Thanks to some helpful folks for responding to a help request, I now realize that the otter/mystery calls are Marbled Murrelets. I’m pretty sure that the straight chirping calls are otters, but the other more gull-like calls are murrelets. I’m not sure why I didn’t think of it before, I guess I did not expect to have them flying over the house.

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Marbled Murrelets: The first Marbled Murrelet calls I noticed were just before 3am. They continued on sporadically through at last 5am. It’s not really known why Marbled Murrelets fly inland during the night throughout the year, though in the summer they do so to visit their nests.
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Mystery Call: There’s probably not much hope for figuring out this call. The first call is obscured somewhat by a Marbled Murrelet call, and a second call is much fainter.
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Duck Flyover: I think I’ll try to start paying more attention to the sound of ducks flying in order to see if I can figure out species by the sound of their flight.
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Raven Calls: Another Raven vocalization that I’ve not caught on recording previously.
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I did not hear much through the steady rain. There was an otter a little before 4am, then more otters and mystery calls between 5 and 5:30. One of the mystery calls was the shorebird-like calls. There was more than one call this time, but none of them were as loud or clear as the clip I posted a few days ago.

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River Otter Mystery Calls: I’m still puzzled by these River Otter/Mystery Calls. In this clip, it seems as though there’s an echo effect smearing the call somewhat, though in the very last call, there is not really any echo. It’s hard for me tell for sure if the final call is the same as the earlier ones, though it seems like maybe it is.
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River Otter and Mystery Calls: Recorded only 5 minutes or so after the previous clip, this starts out with what I’m pretty confident is a River Otter. About halfway through, the calls change to the mystery calls that sound kind of like gulls to me.
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Early Rising Bald Eagle: This Bald Eagle probably spent the night in a tree behind the house. It was up early on a rainy Sunday, though given the time change last night, it was not as early as it might have otherwise seemed. Recorded at 06:37.
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