Comments on: Sounds Like A Typewriter http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/02/12/sounds-like-a-typewriter/ A Bird Blog with Kate St. John Mon, 20 May 2013 20:51:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kate St. John http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/02/12/sounds-like-a-typewriter/comment-page-1/#comment-22744 Kate St. John Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:42:46 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=62625#comment-22744 Monday, February 18: Well, I broke my rule and went looking for crossbills three times since I wrote this article. I suppose my efforts were jinxed from the start. I still have not seen nor heard crossbills this winter. I know they’re in the area. Erf!

]]> By: Stephen http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/02/12/sounds-like-a-typewriter/comment-page-1/#comment-22636 Stephen Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:50:40 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=62625#comment-22636 I agree with Carol, this sounds like an electric typewriter. The bird which sounds most like a mechanical typewriter to me is the Yellow Rail. In fact, it doesn’t sound much like a bird at all, just a bunch of clicking. You can listen to it here:

http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/125394/coturnicops-noveboracensis-yellow-rail-united-states-oregon-thomas-sander

]]> By: Steve Gosser http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/02/12/sounds-like-a-typewriter/comment-page-1/#comment-22635 Steve Gosser Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:33:03 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=62625#comment-22635 Typically I almost always hear the crossbills before I see them, especially when they are flying. Once though back in December I was walking around Lakewood Memorial gardens in Indianola and looked up into a hemlock right beside me and about 10 WW Crossbills were feeding in there completely silently.

That’s a great picture Heather got…wow!!

]]> By: George Bercik http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/02/12/sounds-like-a-typewriter/comment-page-1/#comment-22634 George Bercik Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:02:30 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=62625#comment-22634 Carol, I am that old, and 2-years out of the last 3 I’ve experienced W.W. Crossbills at home. Each time,it was their clicking sounds that drew my attention.To me,it sounded like the manual typewriter. One disclaimer——- I don’t hear so well! It was a special treat to see them.

]]> By: Mary Ann Pike http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/02/12/sounds-like-a-typewriter/comment-page-1/#comment-22633 Mary Ann Pike Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:00:19 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=62625#comment-22633 My daughter saw a bird in Erie that she said looked like a large house finch. I thought maybe it was a Pine Grosbeak, but perhaps it was White-winged Crossbill. I don’t know that she got a close enough look at it to see what the bill looked like.

I saw a bird foraging through the litter at the edge of the woods behind our house this past weekend that looked like a very large sparrow/finch but with a buff breast (no or minimal stripes), so I was thinking it might be a female Rose Breasted Grosbeak, but I wouldn’t think they would be back in the area yet. I think brownish birds are the toughest to ID!

I saw a thrush in January in the same place, so I’m assuming that was a hermit thrush since they should be the only ones here in winter. I’m getting to see a lot of new winter birds since we moved into a more wooded area in Washington County last year.

]]> By: Kate St. John http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/02/12/sounds-like-a-typewriter/comment-page-1/#comment-22632 Kate St. John Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:45:50 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=62625#comment-22632 “Not that old!” :-)

]]> By: Carol Smith http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/02/12/sounds-like-a-typewriter/comment-page-1/#comment-22631 Carol Smith Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:44:41 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=62625#comment-22631 What I hear sounds like an electric typewriter, not a manual. Take heart! You’re NOT THAT OLD!

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