Help! Vancouver birdcalls at dusk.

[chrisoff]

@Doug_Tipple

@fearfaoin

Wow, congrats! Have fun in Europe.

Thank you. I have been advised, however, not to refer to Ireland or England as Europe. Those may be fighting words, and I don’t want to pick any fight in an Irish pub. More properly, I will wait until I emerge from under the English Channel before I say that I am in Europe.

I wouldn’t worry about it, just don’t call Ireland England or vice versa. Both are part of the EU and are in Europe. Congratulations and enjoy your honeymoon.

[Innocent_Bystander]

Congratulations, Mr & Mrs Tipple, and have a lovely time!

[jim_stone]

Bravo! Now just repeat after me:
‘Anything you say, dear!’

Congratulation!

[s1m0n]

@Caroluna

chuck will’s widow
http://sirismm.si.edu/testperl/nasongkey.pl?bird=Chuck-will’s-widow

The nightjar family was what I tried first, and that’s not it.

I know the sound of both pigeons (ie rock doves) and mourning doves, and it’s not either of them.

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Thanks for the guesses, tho. If I find out I’ll post the answer.

[brewerpaul]

Congrats Doug and Rita! Wishing you all the happiness in the world.

[buddhu]

@Doug_Tipple

@fearfaoin

Wow, congrats! Have fun in Europe.

Thank you. I have been advised, however, not to refer to Ireland or England as Europe. Those may be fighting words, and I don’t want to pick any fight in an Irish pub. More properly, I will wait until I emerge from under the English Channel before I say that I am in Europe.

That’s probably for the best.

One that really doesn’t go down well in Ireland is when people refer to England/Wales/Scotland as “the mainland”.

[Brewster]

S1m0n,

I don’t think it’s a blackbird. The noted ornithologist, Sir Paul McCartney, writes “blackbird singing in the dead of night”. Since your bird sings at dusk, it clearly can not be a blackbird.

Brewster

[djm]

@Brewster

The noted ornithologist, Sir Paul McCartney

Is he “noted”? I thought he was “ominous”, or was that “enemous”?

djm

[s1m0n]

@Brewster

S1m0n,

I don’t think it’s a blackbird. The noted ornithologist, Sir Paul McCartney, writes “blackbird singing in the dead of night”. Since your bird sings at dusk, it clearly can not be a blackbird.

Brewster

He doesn’t have a leg to stand on.

[lyrick]

Great Horned Owl? I’ve heard them hooting at dusk some parts of the year, especially in cities, the pattern you describe is close, and they do have a wooden flute quality. They’re also one of the few commonly heard bird-songs in movies that most people would recognize.

[CountryKitty]

LOL, I was actually going to mention Screech Owls…they have an unusual trilling call, lasts about 2 seconds (seems longer when you hear it, or does to me). The notes get faster and closer together and a bit higher in pitch…the pattern of notes speeding up has been compared to what one hears when a small ball is dropped and the bounces get smaller and closer together, if that makes any sense.

Screeches are no bigger than a pigeon and come in either soft ash gray (hard to spot in the trees) or fox red (looks dull brown in low light).

They look like miniature Great HOrned Owls with their little ear tufts.

[Flyingcursor]

I love bird threads because I can quote one of my favorite movies:

“I don’t know about their ‘brain-pans’ but those birds attacked the children.”