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  1. DanC.Licks

    Clamator glandarius

    Thanks Alexander! I think you nailed it. Fits with the midnight "sightings" also. At any rate, Waldkauz is a first for me, and fun to encounter them in the city! And no, I was definitely NOT offended ;-)
  2. DanC.Licks

    Clamator glandarius

    Well, we went back last night and they were indeed there, and through a stroke of luck I was able to enter the grounds of the old Sternwarte (observatory) and get a recording. It seems that maybe my 78 year old ears and tonal memory were playing tricks on me and the call was not exactly the way...
  3. DanC.Licks

    Clamator glandarius

    Thanks. Yes, that is the one I meant, and that is the only call we heard. The bird was sitting in a tree here 48.231551487238974, 16.336272155717516, not more than 20 meters away. We listened to it for about five minutes before it flew off. There was a second bird answering occasionally a bit...
  4. DanC.Licks

    Clamator glandarius

    No, not buzzard like call. My first instinct was Coocoo, though I have never heard that particular call. Similar timbre. Quite gentile in nature. We got a glimpse of it in the dark and it was perhaps the size of a pigeon, certainly not buzzard size. We have had a VERY hot summer!
  5. DanC.Licks

    Clamator glandarius

    Is it possible that I heard a pair of these calling the other night in a woody area of western Vienna, Austria? I had never heard a call like it, and a bit of digging around on the net led me to here: Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) :: xeno-canto. The 5th and 6th sound sample sound...
  6. DanC.Licks

    Hawfinch?.... Austria

    I think you are right! A very rare sighting for around here and certainly a first for me!
  7. DanC.Licks

    Hawfinch?.... Austria

    Somehow it doesn't look right for Hawfinch, though we do have them around often... Very far away and bad air. Best I could get.
  8. DanC.Licks

    Stumped on this one... Austria

    Ah! Thanks... A first!!
  9. DanC.Licks

    Stumped on this one... Austria

    Could it be a female Blackcap??
  10. DanC.Licks

    Stumped on this one... Austria

  11. DanC.Licks

    Baby Somthingorother, Hungary

    Yes, the mask caused me some problems with the ID.
  12. DanC.Licks

    Baby Somthingorother, Hungary

    Baby somethingorother meant I assumed it was a baby because it was so fluffy and had no tail, but didn't know what it was. Picture was taken in Fertöújlak near the southern tip of the Neusiedlersee. To be precice, 47.677673, 16.830978
  13. DanC.Licks

    Baby Somthingorother, Hungary

    Ah! A first for me! :-)
  14. DanC.Licks

    Baby Somthingorother, Hungary

    Any ideas?
  15. DanC.Licks

    Chiffchaff? Austria

    You are right. Brilliant! He certainly sounded like a Chiffchaff, though he was having trouble getting cranked up and kept getting stuck after the first couple of chiffs and chaffs. :-)
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