[birdky] Schochoh, Logan Co., weekend list

  • From: "Debby & Steve Tyson" <tyson9152@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'BIRDKY'" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:17:18 -0500

We were away for half of the weekend, so we missed a number of regulars.
Our count was down as a result though, as I write this, the first GHO that
we've heard in many weeks is booming from the oak tree near the pond
thicket.  

The Mockingbirds have kept us busy chasing them out of our blue berries.  We
really enjoy them in spite of the fight.  They aren't the slightest bit
concerned about us, or the fake hawk that we've employed to warn them away.
They've been on my mind recently, mostly because of our blueberry battles
and the fact that there are several singing within earshot of the house
nearly all day.  Several weeks ago, I started a list of the songs in their
repertoire that I recognize and I included it at the bottom here (at the
moment it stands at 13).  There is one of them that does a great woodpecker
and cycles through Red bellied, Redheaded, Flicker, throwing in other birds
like Towhee and Cardinal, along with other "nonsense" that I don't get.
Tonight was the first that I heard bits of Cuckoo in its song.  Often it
sticks with one song long enough that I have to stop to confirm that it is
indeed a Mockingbird, which seems unusual.  

Stephen Tyson, Schochoh, Logan Co., KY

Species Name:

Northern Bobwhite

Mallard

Turkey Vulture

American Kestrel

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Mourning Dove

Great Horned Owl

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Blue Jay

Tufted Titmouse

Tree Swallow

Purple Martin

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Barn Swallow

Carolina Wren

Northern Mockingbird

Brown Thrasher

European Starling

American Robin

House Finch

American Goldfinch

Brown-headed Cowbird

Red-winged Blackbird

Common Grackle

Eastern Meadowlark

Song Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

Northern Cardinal

Indigo Bunting

 

Mockingbird songs:  

Eastern Bluebird

Carolina Wren

Great Crested Flycatcher

Red bellied Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Northern Bobwhite

Purple Martin

Northern Cardinal

Redheaded Woodpecker

House Sparrow

American Kestrel 

Eastern Towhees

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

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