What’s a “tape” recorder/player?
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From: obol-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <obol-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Hendrik Herlyn
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 2:10 PM
To: Mark Nikas <elepaio@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: OBOL <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [obol] Tape recorder stories (was: possible Mountain Quail in Forest
Park)
Many years ago, when I was TA at OSU's Fish & Wildlife Department, I'd take my
ornithology class out to Finley NWR and place a tape player on the trail on the
backside of Cabell Marsh, looping Virginia Rail calls. On several occasions, we
watched single or even multiple rails run out into the open and attack the tape
player (I suppose these days we can't do that anymore, since playback is a
no-no in National Wildlife Refuges :)). MY students were impressed, though.
Hendrik
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 1:34 PM Mark Nikas <elepaio@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:elepaio@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Good tape recorder story Jeff. I had a similar one years ago. In the 1980's
Black Rails were discovered as local breeders at a few sites in southeastern
Colorado. I went to the marsh at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site where
they had been heard and played my continuous loop tape. At the time I was a
smoker and placed the recorder at my feet while I lit a smoke. I then looked
down to pick up the tape player and on top of it was a tiny Black Rail pecking
at the speaker. It's still the only one I've seen.
Mark Nikas
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 1:08 PM Jeff Gilligan <jeffgilligan10@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:jeffgilligan10@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
I used to bird in the hills above Sauvie’s Island decades ago. The Loggie
Road and Cornelius Pass Road area was in my section of the Sauvie’s Island CBC,
which I started as a 16 year old in the mid-60s. I regularly found Mountain
Quail up there, which is of course is not far from Forest Park and part of the
same Tualatin Mountains (west hills) ridge. Have a fun memory of trying to
show an eastern birder a Mountain Quail there. We stopped near an emergent
clear cut and I turned on my endless loop recorder with the species' calls and
we wandered off maybe a hundred feet. After getting no response, we went back
to the recorder to try elsewhere. When I reach to pick up the recorder there
was a Mountain Quail on it. Or next to it
Jeff Gilligan
On Jan 22, 2019, at 11:47 AM, Andy Frank <andydfrank@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:andydfrank@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
While walking in Forest Park in Portland this morning about 9AM I heard about 4
"quarks" that I thought sounded like Mountain Quail. It was somewhat distant
and did not repeat itself so I am not confident enough to include it on my
checklist, but if someone happens to go and can confirm it, I'd love to hear
it. This was near the intersection of Wildwood Trail and Birch Trail.
Andy Frank
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Hendrik G. Herlyn
Corvallis, OR
"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."
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