I recall someone tracking down a strange sound in the bushes at Indian Ford or
Cold Springs and it was an alarm clock left by a camper.
Alan Contreras
Eugene, Oregon
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
www.alanlcontreras.com
On Jan 23, 2019, at 2:45 PM, <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What’s a “tape” recorder/player?
--tg
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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> 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>
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> 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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