Thanks to Georgia and a number of others who have responded to my
question, all of whom make the same comment, summarized perhaps a little
simplistically as: if it is only a single call note it is a bobwhite.
While mockingbirds are in the area, mimicking all kinds of birds, the
bobwhite call is a single note interspersed by silence...until it calls
again.
I conclude that we do, indeed, have bobwhites at BARC right now.
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Michel A. Cavigelli
Research Soil Scientist
Sustainable Agricultural Systems Lab
Animal and Natural Resources Institute
Bldg 001, Rm 140
BARC-West
10300 Baltimore Ave.
Beltsville, MD 20705
301-504-8327 office
240-304-9480 cell
301-504-8370 fax
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-----Original Message-----
From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Georgia McDonald
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 2:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] bobwhite question
Hi All-----
If the singer were a mockingbird, wouldn't one expect the bobwhite call
to be interspersed into a medley of other songs? If I heard a
continuing series of bobwhite calls that were not part of a medley, I
would assume it was a bobwhite calling.
We are still waiting for a mockingbird to find the vacant territory of
our neighborhood. Our previous residents disappeared with the winter
and we have been mockingbird-less all season. Hopefully, post-breeding
dispersal will provide us a new songster; the mockingbird medleys have
been greatly missed.
Meanwhile, we are flush with offspring of Downy Woodpeckers, Chickadees,
Nuthatches, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Tufted Titmice, Gray Catbirds &
Robins. Preying mantises are everyday occurrences, we have a yard
Northern Brown Snake and, for the first time ever, we have a few Odonata
(Ebony Jewelwing & m/f Common Whitetail) visiting our smallish
backyard.
Georgia McDonald Towson, Balt Co
On 7/5/2011 1:49 PM, Nancy Magnusson wrote:
> Hi, Michel -
>
> I can't answer for sure, but the mockingbirds and starlings at
Schooley Mill Park (HoCo) stopped doing bobwhite imitations after the
bobwhites disappeared from the area.
>
> Nancy Magnusson
> Ellicott City, MD
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