Mystery bird

 

It’s fun to recognize birds by their calls.  Sometimes we never see a particular bird; we just have to figure it out by the sound it makes.  Today, at Falcon State Park, we heard a call we didn’t recognize.  It sounded kind of like a dove.  There are six different kinds of doves here, so there are lots of different dove sounds to know.  It wasn’t quite any of them though.  This sounded like a dove, it had the right tone, but it didn’t match up with any of the dove calls.  It wasn’t a dove.

 

We had to find the bird, with just the occasional call to guide us.  When we did find it, it was not a bird we expected to see in the place we saw it…

 

You can see him call in the first part of this short clip.  You can’t hear it very well, but this is the best I could get before he left.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kndz0al3C74

 

You can get a better look at him in the tree on this clip.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaNZGF7zu78