ML249523271
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Observation details
Recorded calling (with my smartphone), giving it’s diagnostic “bob...White” song (only the latter, more strident note can be heard faintly at 0:05 [overlapping the beginning of a Common Yellowthroat song] and then more clearly at 0:17). When I arrived, I did a quick round of rather modest Northern Bobwhite playback (as my speaker setup today is rather weak), but did not generate any immediate response. Then, perhaps 20-30 minutes later, a single clear bobwhite song could be heard in the distance. After more fruitless playback and silence, I at least heard another clear song, farther up the road, after which the bird continuing calling at well-spaced intervals. I raced N along Edwards Rd to try and secure a voucher recording, after which the bird went quiet. I then relocated my car closer to the lone hedgerow that bisects the clearcut on the W side of the road. I tried a bit more rather muted playback and eventually heard a bird calling in the distance, seemingly much farther W of the road than the prior vocalizations. Could this have been a second individual? First heard calling from approximately here: 30.698, -91.008. This parcel of the clearcut, just north of the dirt track "artery" that weaves through the clearcut, is populated with very young pines, whereas the area farther to the S seemed to be second growth deciduous scrub.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 159.2 KB