This distant song should be recognizable despite the quality of this short audio. A lazy whistled tune was repeated continually every 10s until the bird went out of earshot. It reminds of phrases of the Olive-sided Flycatcher in quality but not right for that species. Details below the spectrogram. Help?
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/337812181
Thanks, Nancy D
E Dalhousie, Kings
Jake MacDonald phoned again to report having seen his first-ever white-crowned sparrow, an adult. He lives in east Wolfville, on lower Maple Avenue.
Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
Male RT Hummingbird arrived at our feeders Tues May 10 (Ridge Rd) and
yesterday an Ovenbird (our first vocal warbler) was heard from our woods.
Both lovely spring visitors.
Judy Tufts
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Stopped to look at a couple of eiders at the bottom of Lewis Lane in
Yarmouth about 10:30 this morning, and noticed a smaller, black duck with a
bright orange bill not far away. Binoculars made a white patch on the back
of the head obvious, and a dingy bird of similar size soon appeared
alongside. Surf scoter couple? Nothing else would fit!
I heard no sounds. But if I see it again I must try whistling. It just was doing that strange upright swimming. A beautiful creature and quite a face full of whiskers which must help guide them underwater and to forage I would guess.
Nancy
> On May 8, 2021, at 3:18 PM, rita.paul(a)ns.sympatico.ca wrote:
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> A trapper told me once Nancy that was the way
> he used to get otters when he was trapping.
> He would whistle and that would bring them back.
> Did it make any calls ?
> Enjoy the spring
> Paul
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> > On May 8, 2021 at 12:48 PM NancyDowd <nancypdowd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I was sitting pondside feeding the blackflies yesterday morning in E Dalhousie, Kings, when I heard rustling and crunching from a grassy island about 30’ away. Then a big-whiskered otter appeared munching up a fish. Once it noticed I was there it swam towards me dog-paddling with its head and chest straight up out of the water, did a U-turn and swam off more normally in the other direction out of sight. Perhaps it had young with it or nearby as my blurry photos suggest. Or maybe just normal agitation upon suddenly realizing a potential predator (me) was so close. Not swimming behaviour I’d ever witnessed before.
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I had a report of a sandhill crane flying in the direction of Crousetown today from Paul Hamen. The other day Mandy Eisenhauer of Rhodes Corner had a black-throated green warbler. I had a black and white warbler today along the Watermill Road.
James R. Hirtle
LaHave
I’m looking for an ID on the single note call in the linked recording made this morning in Big Lots Lunenburg Co. This is quite noisy so maybe of little use for ID purposes. It was made using the birdnet app which returned Pine Grosbeak when the call in question was analyzed. I’m not sure that is 100% reliable although it did ID the Ruby-crowned Kinglet also in the recording. The only modification was some amplification (normalized to -3db) which is standard for uploads and necessary for folks like me with significant HF hearing loss. Almost sounds like a lone peeper to my ears when played back on my phone but didn’t give me that impression on location. It seemed to be coming from well up in a stand of mature spruce. Aside form the Kinglets, Evening Grosbeak was also present at this location.
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/335291111
Thanks
Kevin Lantz
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