[birdky] Re: S-T Flycatcher Details

The clicking sound you heard was their beaks snapping
together. This is often heard while in close proximity
to a feeding flycatcher. I remember as a boy of 8 or
9, spending hours lying in the shade of an oak grove
on the farm watching nesting Wood-Pewees. I thought it
was so cool to be able to hear them "smack their lips"
when they caught an insect. This clicking sound will
often alert one to the presence of a feeding
flycatcher when they are in cover too dense to see the
bird. This if often the case with Empidonax
flycatchers.

Dave 




--- Kathryn Clay <louisaClay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Can you believe it? We were stationed in San
> Antonio, Texas during the
> big WW 2 and I would watch the scissor-t.Flycatchers
> catching insects
> and they would make a clicking sound when they
> snapped their long tails
> together--do you know if it WAS their tails or their
> beaks when they
> caught insects? Herb had some gorgeous slides of
> them!!-K.C. Falls of
> Rough,Ky.Grayson Co. Incidentally, my daugher called
> me from Florida and
> said that a Great Horned Owl landed on the screen
> above their swimming
> pool and made a sound like a CAT! Her Florida bird
> book called it a CAT
> OWL (which I had never heard before)--I finally
> found it in Bent and it
> said that the fledglings make sound like cats!! 
> (But I would never call
> it a Cat Owl!!)  I know the Y.-b. Sapsucker souns
> like a cat--K.C.
> 
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