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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>At our house, we too get what sounds like the </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>"low-battery warning" noise of a smoke detector, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>but it’s an Anna’s Hummingbird. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Here’s a recording:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9luU--sAc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9luU--sAc</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tina Blade<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Duvall, WA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Tweeters <tweeters-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Louise Rutter<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, June 04, 2022 8:12 AM<br><b>To:</b> tweeters@u.washington.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tweeters] Smoke Alarm Bird ID<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>It is the black-headed grosbeak, thank you. That makes sense, as it starts up around the time they arrive. Cornell has it here, under the first listing of ‘calls’ with the same regularity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-headed_Grosbeak/sounds">https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-headed_Grosbeak/sounds</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Thank you everyone for all the suggestions. I would love it to be nighthawks, as they would be a wonderful returning rarity around here (I know they’ve started to recover a little in the Seattle area after an absence), but that peent call is too drawn out. I knew tweeters wouldn’t let me down!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Louise Rutter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Kirkland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Steve Hampton <<a href="mailto:stevechampton@gmail.com">stevechampton@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> 04 June 2022 07:39<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:louise.rutter@eelpi.gotdns.org">louise.rutter@eelpi.gotdns.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tweeters] Smoke Alarm Bird ID<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'>A Black-headed Grosbeak "pik" note sounds like this, but is generally not regular and repeated much. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'>If it's very regular and repeated, then it's a squirrel of some type <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 7:36 AM Louise Rutter <<a href="mailto:louise.rutter@eelpi.gotdns.org">louise.rutter@eelpi.gotdns.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Each summer there’s a bird (I’m assuming it’s a bird) that starts calling around our house between mid May to early June. It’s likely one of the summer visitors, as all our resident breeders start long before. It makes a single, high, metallic ‘plik’ note every 4 to 5 seconds, and it sounds like nothing so much as a smoke detector with a low battery warning. The sound appears to come from high in the trees, although it’s very hard to localise. We live on the Juanita hill in Kirkland, in mixed deciduous and coniferous woodland between St Edwards State Park and Big Finn Hill park. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Does anyone have any suggestions what it might be? If I can narrow it down a bit, I can check with the Cornell audio library. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Louise Rutter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Kirkland<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>_______________________________________________<br>Tweeters mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">Tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters" target="_blank">http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#073763'>Steve Hampton</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Port Townsend, WA (</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>qatáy</span><span lang=EN-GB>)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>