[birding] Re: [obol] Apologies to Howard

[Richard and Marilyn Musser]

Hello,
     I have heard this mewing from young goshawks, but I've also heard it many more times from both coopers and SShawks. In Alaska, where coopers don't live, I've watched sharpies just fledging---and when more than one individual is calling---my initial impression was of a batch of kittens. So I've heard this call from youngsters of all three of our accipiters. Best, Dick

--- On Tue, 10/27/09, M & R Campbell <campbell at peak.org> wrote:

> From: M & R Campbell <campbell at peak.org>
> Subject: [obol] Apologies to Howard
> To: "Midvalley birding" <list at midvalleybirding.org>, "obol" <obol at oregonbirdwatch.org>
> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 10:58 PM
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> It's been pointed out
> to me that the juvenile 
> Goshawk I found at Snag Boat Bend last Saturday was just
> where Howard Bruner had 
> reported having heard a juvenile Goshawk (on
> 10/11).  I only vaguely 
> remembered his post (to the mid-valley list) because
> what most impressed me 
> about it was that someone might have the temerity to
> ID a Goshawk in such 
> an unlikely location on the basis of a mewing call--even
> someone 
> like Howard, who has spent a lot of time up in
> the 
> Cascades.   So I promptly forgot almost all the
> information 
> in his post, and I wasn't looking for a
> Goshawk when I confirmed 
> Howard's ID.  Howard is evidently a much
> better birder than I am, but 
> that is not a huge revelation to me.  If I had heard a
> mewing call, 
> I would have looked around for a cat.
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>  
> Randy
> Campbell      
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