Sounds great! Perhaps your mystery bird call is a Veery. See if it sounds like the call at the end of this clip: http://allaboutbirds.org/guide/Veery/sounds
Sandy Podulka At 11:45 PM 6/26/2012, Donna Scott wrote: >On this lovely 70 degree day (Tues. 6/26). , I took a leisurely >drive over hill and dale to Owasco Flats by NY Rt. 38 (#41 in our >wonderful Cayuga Basin guidebook) and walked around the loop trail >along the inlet stream and old RR bed Some parts were very wet & >muddy and I wore the wrong shoes, now also very muddy. I may also >have poison ivy on my legs in a few days... The paths could use a >little trim. While there is not too much PI right by the trail, I >would recommend long pants, not shorts. > >It was peaceful and quiet by the inlet portion of the path, except >for the faint traffic noise on Rt. 38. Luckily, some of the birds >were not quiet and I heard and saw several VEERYS and GRAY CATBIRDS, >and saw, & of course heard, 2 BELTED KINGFISHERS. >Heard the irregular knocking of a YELLOW BELLIED SAPSUCKER across >the inlet, then saw one close by on my side. Kept hearing a GREAT >CRESTED FLYCATCHER and saw a smaller flycatcher I could not >identify. I learned the Sapsucker knock sound from Sandy Padulka, >one of our field guides in the SFO class. She found just the right >stick to bang on a tree to show us how it sounds! >Saw a GREEN HERON flying away and a TURKEY VULTURE in the distance. > >Part way down the path, by the small bridge with railings (some torn >off by vandals), I found a lovely wild Canada Lily in full bloom. > >Along the old RR part of the path, I heard a few birds I can't yet >identify by sound, including one I have never heard: >It called a plain sound - "yurr" or "your" with a faint buzzy >undernote - called once with pauses in between calls. Can anybody >tell me what bird this might be? I imitated it and the bird called >back (I think), but wouldn't come to where I could see it. > >Did see a nice female AMERICAN REDSTART there, and heard what I >thought was a RED EYED VIREO, and heard a WOOD THRUSH very close to me. > >On the gravel road part of the trail I saw a HOUSE SPARROW, an AMER. >GOLDFINCH, AMER. ROBINS, NORTHERN FLICKERS, DOWNY WOODPECKER, an E. >KINGBIRD, and a YELLOW WARBLER. Some RED WINGED BLACKBIRDS and C. >GRACKLES flew out to the nearby marsh. Saw several CEDAR WAXWINGS >and TREE SWALLOWS, including some babies lined up on a dead tree >branch, opening their mouths in unison when a parent flew near. > >Over or on Owasco Lake were several BARN SWALLOWS, MALLARDS, and >RING BILLED GULLS. > >On the drive over to Owasco through rural country, I saw a lot of >birds including many, many BARN SWALLOWS - some sitting in the dirt >and gravel on a dirt road, just sitting there, not bathing in the >dust; several NO. MOCKINGBIRDS, an AMER. KESTREL, and an EASTERN >BLUEBIRD; also, a BELTED KINGFISHER and a YELLOW WARBLER by a little >stream. Lots of other common birds, as well. > >Kevin McGowan is right - there are lots of birds out there and this >is a great part of the world - - rural NY in lush, green summer can't be beat! >Now I need to try Fillmore Glen State Park, also described in #41. > >Donna >-- >Cayugabirds-L List Info: ><http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME>Welcome and Basics ><http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES>Rules and Information ><http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm>Subscribe, > >Configuration and Leave >Archives: ><http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html>The >Mail Archive ><http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds>Surfbirds ><http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html>BirdingOnThe.Net >Please submit your observations to <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>eBird! >-- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
