lmhall2000
Well-known member
Any good southern birders out there? I've lived in the south 35 of my 37 years...and I've atleast familiar with most birds. I often hear the whipoorwill or bob-white and know the common chirps of most birds...atleast to know it's a common chirp.
But early in the morning (around 7am) I was walking through a fairly dense forested area and heard a sound I've never heard before. I'm going to try and describe it as best I can....it was a single "bawwp" that lasted for a solid second and you could almost feel the echo in your body..it repeated itself in a rhthym doing the bawwp on every 3rd or 4th second...it was sooo strong and resonant...it had to have come from a fairly large bird...I looked all around but was on a time schedule with my walking and it sounded as if it were coming from high up in the tall Alabama pines that I couldn't see through well. It went on with it's chiming for 10 minutes and I can walk a 2/3 a mile in that time frame and I could still hear it after that time...
Are there any places where I can listen to bird calls and any ideas on which birds you might think I should start with? I'm taking my kids back there on Saturday morning to see if we hear it again. It's just one of those moments where you hear it and you go "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT???" We're new to living in AL, but I've never heard that call in TN or GA or even southern AL before. I'm a big walker and have taken long morning walks most of my life and never heard that sound. Thanks!
Tara
But early in the morning (around 7am) I was walking through a fairly dense forested area and heard a sound I've never heard before. I'm going to try and describe it as best I can....it was a single "bawwp" that lasted for a solid second and you could almost feel the echo in your body..it repeated itself in a rhthym doing the bawwp on every 3rd or 4th second...it was sooo strong and resonant...it had to have come from a fairly large bird...I looked all around but was on a time schedule with my walking and it sounded as if it were coming from high up in the tall Alabama pines that I couldn't see through well. It went on with it's chiming for 10 minutes and I can walk a 2/3 a mile in that time frame and I could still hear it after that time...
Are there any places where I can listen to bird calls and any ideas on which birds you might think I should start with? I'm taking my kids back there on Saturday morning to see if we hear it again. It's just one of those moments where you hear it and you go "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT???" We're new to living in AL, but I've never heard that call in TN or GA or even southern AL before. I'm a big walker and have taken long morning walks most of my life and never heard that sound. Thanks!
Tara