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["Michael Shapiro" <sc.tanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, all-
    Lately, where I work, I have been hearing what I am guessing to be a Pewee, 
but it doesn't quite sound like one and it calls incessantly. It sounds like 
"pee-eee" (with the "pee" going down and the "eee" coming back up). The bird 
makes the sound CONSTANTLY with only a 1 or 2 second break between calls, and 
it seems to do this ALL DAY LONG. Whenever we walk by it, we hear it. I even 
saw it today - it acts like a flycatcher, and we have had Pewees nesting there. 
    So, the question is - is this an immature E. Wood-Pewee doing this, or is 
it an unusual (and sometime irritating) adult? I have never heard a Pewee act 
or sound like this before. It never makes the typical "pee-a-wee" sound or the 
down-slurred "peee." Only what I described. Any help would be appreciated. 
Please respond off the listserve. Thanks.

Michael Shapiro
Richmond/Henrico (bird is in Goochland)
sc.tanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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