The raspy bird calling in the background is a Virginia Rail, but not a call I
have heard often.
It matches the third call-type on the Stokes CDs.
If you go to the Virginia Rail page on xeno-canto.org
http://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Rallus-limicola
Then scroll down the page to the two recordings from Alberta by Richard E.
Webster they match this call.
Doug Kieser
Minneapolis
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Subject: [wisb] Mystery bird calling in cattails & nesting Bluebirds,
Richfield, Washington County
I have recorded this raspy sounding bird (I'm assuming it's a bird!) calling
from the cattails in our backyard at night, in hopes that someone can help me
with the ID. It's faint, but if you listen closely you should hear its five
beat sound, then a six beat one, which is more commonly heard, and then another
five beats. It does call during the day, too. It showed up about a week or so
ago and I have never seen it.
We do have Marsh Wrens, Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Yellowthroats, occasional
Sedge Wrens and Swamp Sparrows out there, but I don't think that's what this is.
Here's my Flickr link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beanheadwisconsin/36029487865/
And I am thrilled that after many trials and tribulations we have a pair of
Eastern Bluebirds in one of our nest boxes feeding their young right now. It
took a few tries, and a few different boxes in the yard, but they finally
settled in the backyard. I am crossing my fingers and toes that these four
youngsters will fledge successfully in the next week.
Here are links to a couple pix on Flickr, plus you can see other pix of the
adults in my photo stream, too:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beanheadwisconsin/35706401611/in/dateposted/
and
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beanheadwisconsin/35157974823/in/dateposted/
Today I reached 84 species in the yard when I had a couple Black-billed Cuckoos
show up, which was a thrill except that I couldn't get any pix of them. Not a
bad yard total for less than four months of living here in Richfield.
Eileen Worman
Richfield, Washington County
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