Help Me Identify a Bird

Re: Eastern Wood-pewee confermation????

natureboy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:30:43 GMT

thanks, but i beleive my accent would get in the way, you kneaux.

kimura was with me when we first heard the bird. but i finally got some shots a week later. we had it narrowed down to an eastern wood-pewee, but did not find it to confirm.

Re: Eastern Wood-pewee confermation????

RJP — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:39:49 GMT

kimura:
i think natureboy should be the official bird song- to- text translator.

I second that!

Re: Eastern Wood-pewee confermation????

kimura — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:01:47 GMT

i think natureboy should be the official bird song- to- text translator.

Re: Eastern Wood-pewee confermation????

natureboy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:21:46 GMT

thanks randy. i know the photos are terrible, but this guy was so high in the trees and they are so small that its very tough to even locate them. i've always heard their calls and caught glimses of them, but i have little experience with this species. thanks again.

Re: Eastern Wood-pewee confermation????

RJP — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:15:20 GMT

I think you got it right. It's tough to tell for sure from the photos but your song description is a dead ringer.

Eastern Wood-pewee confermation????

natureboy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:17:54 GMT

i observed this bird for about ten minutes yesterday. it was ~ 50' high in a pecan tree and making short burts of flight flycatching. i was calling back and forth with it and its call was a slurred clear whistle: weee-aaarre (slightly ascending).............weeEE'rrrrree (descending at the rrrree end-part). from the call and the wing bars that are barely visible in the photo, the best i could come up with is eastern wood-pewee. any input is appreciated.