ML607523351
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Observation details
I have seen uplands in this location for 3 or 4 consecutive years in a row now at this same time of year. This is the first time I’ve had three at once though. All of them were flying together and came from the south end. Their call was a bubbly series of trills each with 3/5 notes. About the size of a greater yellowlegs. Long legs. Slower wingbeats. It was very bad timing for me because I was making a phone call at the time and once I heard them coming towards me I frantically tried to pull up Merlin which took me way too long to get off the phonecall and pull up the the sound recording. The three were a ways away when the recording finally picked up their call, but I believe you can still make it out. In the recording the one calling didn’t sound as bubbly as it did when it flew right over me and there weren’t as many notes, but I believe it’s still distinctive and definitive. I was in the middle portion of the basin as flew right over me at about 50 yards high. As soon as they passed over me they veered off and headed over the highway out to the farm fields which is when I lost sight of them in the air. About a half hour later when I was back at the truck I heard another bubbly trill series coming from deep somewhere out in the refuge. This definitely could’ve been completely different bird but I couldn’t be sure.
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- 1.8 MB