Several years ago a 4th grade student at the school where I taught, told me
there was a quail in the bushes outside one of the school's entrances.
Sure enough, there it was.
A ranger wasn't surprised at the story. She told me that Bobwhites were
getting along quite nicely in the Randallstown area & were frequently sighted.
Gail Frantz
Old Hanover Rd
Reisterstown
In a message dated 5/17/2012 11:28:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
About 25 years ago, near the corner of Massachusetts Ave. and 6th St., NE,
on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, I heard a calling "bob WHITE" on a fairly
continual basis.
At night.
A mocker for sure. But how and where did he pick up the quail call????
On May 17, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Janet Millenson wrote:
> I'd like to append a question to Leo's: How long does a particular
imitation stay in the mockingbird's repertoire? In other words, if (as in Leo's
example of the towhee) the mocker doesn't regularly hear a particular
birdsong or other sound, will that imitation fade from its repertoire in a year
or two? Or does the mockingbird keep adding new tunes without dropping the
old ones?
>
>
> On 5/17/2012 10:34 AM, Leo Weigant wrote:
>> Nancy, I share your . . . frustration.
>>
>> Which prompts me to report that this spring I seem to
>> have a virtuoso mocker in my neighborhood who will
>> sit in a bush and and run through a repertoire of nearly
>> a dozen species one after another, including towhees
>> (not a neighborhood bird).
>> Only other tieme I heard such a concert was once, years
>> ago, in Texas when Mark Garland ID'd 14 species calls
>> from a mocker atop the motel where we stopped on an old
>> ANS "Foray" trip.
>>
>> I suppose I should know, but don't ~ do they do this sort of
>> showing off just during spring mating season?
>>
>> Leo Weigant
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 17, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Nancy Magnusson wrote:
>>
>>> ... against mockingbirds doing thrashers.
>>>
>>
>
> -Janet Millenson
> Potomac, MD (Montgomery County)
>
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