ML59320071
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - X
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Not specified
Media notes
Only hear it "tweek" 3 times before cut off by a pileated woodpecker.
Observation details
Initially heard when I went out earlier in the day, but without a visual and some sort of recorded data I didn't want to log it. This time I got a visual - it was flying just behind and a little lower that one of two pileated woodpeckers that had entered the area from the north. It was pretty far from the trail and the sun was setting, but as it looked to be more than half the size of the pileated and in the direction from which I heard the "tweek" calls (and pileated calls), I feel certain it was not a downy. It landed on a pine tree trunk for a while and I could see a bold (pretty wide and long) vertical white stripe down its back, a little bit of red on its nape, but not its profile unfortunately. But I would know that call anywhere - louder and sharper than a downy. When I had a pair nesting outside my bedroom in Maine (two years in a row) I used to curse them for sounding like a yapping little dog with a sore throat... Anyway, I set up my chair on the trail a little after 7PM and it was over half an hour before anything happened - not counting the turkey that came around the bend and freaked out when it saw me. But when the pileated woodpeckers entered the arena, it took maybe 5 minutes tops before I suddenly heard the hairy. At first I heard drumming, so I wasn't sure if it was a downy or a hairy, but then came that "tweek" again. Loud and clear! Took a while and some walking to follow the call (it sounded like the bird was moving in a south-westerly direction) before I saw him. To aid in location I didn't log this eBird entry under the usual Longleaf Flatwoods spot (the hot spot we normally use), but instead marked the location of my chair. The woodpecker was in the woods on the southern side of the service road, just before the red trail divides in two directions.
Technical information
- Recorder
- iPhone SE
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 104.89 KB