[wisb] Re: Early bird Robin (was: Bird Calls in the Middle of the Night)
- From: "David, Karl H." <david@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "bgsloan2@xxxxxxxxx" <bgsloan2@xxxxxxxxx>, wisbirdn <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:47:37 +0000
I had an interesting robin experience myself this weekend. Saturday I believe
it was I heard a really loud, sharp wheep or two in my back yard and thought
finally, the Great Crested Flycatcher is back. I heard it again a few more
times during the day and began to doubt it was a GCF. Then yesterday, I walked
into my (open) garage and flushed up a robin right at the entrance. It gave
that same loud call, and before long I realized what was going on. A baby robin
was trapped in the garage, and perhaps had already spent the night there! It
was quite an adventure, and took about an hour, but finally I got the young
bird (which could fly) out.
The parents of course had been waiting outside quietly while I chased their kid
all around the garage, because when I walked out with it they protested most
vigorously. Before releasing the kicking and screaming youngster, I got a good
look at that practically fluorescent yellow mouth lining. Man, there's no way
the parents could ever miss that obvious a target!
Karl David
Milwaukee
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Subject: [wisb] Early bird Robin (was: Bird Calls in the Middle of the Night)
Jesse Ellis said "Robins are one of the first diurnal singers (song, not call),
and given that they sing predawn, as light is just appearing, they could be
responding a little to street light."
I have a Robin outside my window that starts singing a few minutes after
3:00AM. Is that unusually early? (I live in urban Milwaukee, near Lake
Michigan).
Bernie Sloan
Milwaukee
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