Published November 6th, 2008 at 11:43 am in Recording, birds with no comments
Tagged with Marbled Murrelet, River Otter, Window Recording
It started out calm, but the wind picked up a little before 2. There was a far distant Western Screech-owl calling for a little while. It was quite faint, and I would not have noticed it had the wind not been still at that point. The first Marbled Murrelet call I caught was at 01:17, quite early. I didn’t notice any more until around 4:30 and then again at 5:30.
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Marbled Murrelets: I suspect all of these are Marbled Murrelets. I’m confident in the first one, and the last part of the second, but less so about the others, as the calls are more like chirps than the ‘keer’ calls of Marbled Murrelets. However, I would not be surprised if Marbled Murrelets chirp also. The initial chirps in the second clip have a very similar sound quality to the following ‘keer’ calls, so it seems likely to be a Marbled Murrelet throughout. Trying to puzzle these chirps out has made me curious if Marbled Murrelets might respond to River Otters chirping.
Published November 5th, 2008 at 12:18 pm in Recording, birds with no comments
Tagged with Pine Siskin, Window Recording
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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Published November 4th, 2008 at 9:08 pm in Recording, birds with no comments
Tagged with Bald Eagle, Window Recording
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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Published November 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 am in Recording, birds with 2 comments
Tagged with Marbled Murrelet, Raven, Window Recording
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.
Mystery Call
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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.
Duck Flyover
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Raven Calls: Another Raven vocalization that I’ve not caught on recording previously.
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