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Post by rowanberry on Jan 28, 2018 6:45:08 GMT
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Post by ianr on Jan 28, 2018 8:38:07 GMT
I think most corvids are good mimics, whilst walking around the lake last year mid day-ish I heard an owl but a very quite owl gently hooting away. That can't be right I though too quite and after ten minutes I located the culprit a Jay quietly burbling away to it's self and throwing in the owl hoot ian
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Post by Tringa on Feb 1, 2018 18:28:05 GMT
I've not seen that one before. Isn't it great? I recall hearing about someone who kept a magpie which would say, "Hello" when anyone entered the house.
A couple of years ago I started a thread on here because I had a similar experience to you, Ian. I heard the kee-whick call of a Tawny Owl one morning, but far too late for it to be an owl.
Alan (Accipiter) suggested one possibility was a jay.
I don't know whether I am continually surprised by the corvids or whether I think they are so talented that nothing surprises me.
Dave
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Post by rowanberry on Feb 3, 2018 23:27:15 GMT
Our jays make a very quiet 'merr-ow' sound when they are talking to each other... I've seen several comments in articles about them that they are mimicking cats, but I honestly don't think that's what they're doing. In this case, I think it's simply a conversational sound that they're making when they speak normally to each other. I only hear them make their famous shriek when they are startled or as a warning call. If they are waiting in the trees whenever I go out to put their nuts on the table in the morning, they'll sometimes make that same noise to me- as though they are telling me to hurry up with their breakfast.
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