ML395836891
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
I paused the recording at one point to look for the bird and I intended to add a 1-sec break in the recording but I can't tell where the pause was.
Observation details
Continuing rarity found by Matt S, Dan J and company on November 20th. I heard two or three one-second rattles, similar to the rattles I heard later when I saw it in flight, just after 9:30am, almost as soon as I reached an opening to the meadow on the Weir Trail. Then it settled somewhere nearby high in the pines and vocalized for maybe 10 minutes here: N 33°20'42.5328" W 116°54'32.76" making almost entirely 2-note "pitik" calls. As soon as I realized I wasn't going to see it easily I started recording. Somehow it managed to leave the pines without my seeing it as I then heard it call briefly from closer to the Baptist Trail to the south. Rob caught up about then and he staked it out there while I made a restroom dash back to Doane Pond and he heard it vocalize there for maybe five minutes without ever finding it. Around 11:35am I heard several short rattles again and saw it flying into the pines near the original spot where I finally got a look at it: A black woodpecker with a large white face, crown and throat. It was foraging on the trunk towards the top of a thin pine tree. Recording.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- Olympus LS-P2 Linear PCM Recorder
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 54.87 MB