KurtCapt87@aol.com wrote: > I would be curious to know the text from where this "barking" > description derives. I don't recall but wish I did, I'd like to give the author credit because I certainly find it useful. As in the case with all birds different folks use different pnuemonics (I have had people look incredulous when I describe the titmouse as "peter peter" or the Carolina wren as "teakettle"). .oh, and Rising doesn't describe this > Swamp call! He also doesn't describe the swamp's soft "electric buzz" which I hear from time to time. Bonnie Ott