Lucky you!! Try whistling to your visitor. Mine whistles back to me. He and
his partner usually appear about 11pm and talk to me until I go to bed. I
have some wonderful pictures that he was willing to let me take. I got to
within a few feet of him until he swung off the porch. He likes sunflower
seeds.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hejmanowski" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] I.D. Night Caller?


> Try this for flying squirrel audio:
> http://www.flyingsquirrels.com/Audio/index.html
>
>    Dave Hejmanowski
>    Delaware, OH
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 6:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] I.D. Night Caller?
>
>
>> Karen,
>>
>> Your nocturnal calling critter sounds like it might be a flying
>> squirrel. I heard one for my first time at a friend's house, also in
>> Medina Co. Everything about your description matches what I heard. Very
>> mournful and ventriloquistic. Anybody know of a good sound file link so
>> that we might all learn to recognize this one?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Craig Rieker
>> Parma OH
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "KG" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 2:56 PM
>> Subject: [Ohio-birds] I.D. Night Caller?
>>
>>
>>> At my mother's house in southwest Medina county last night I heard a
>>> bird call I could not identify. Mom says it has been calling for a
>>> week or more -- only after dark and until very late at night (at least
>>> until she finally falls asleep). She does not hear it during daylight
>>> hours. It is a lone bird, none of its calls are returned. In 31 years
>>> living there she has never heard anything similar. The call itself is
>>> a single plaintive descending shriek... 8-12 seconds apart, very loud,
>>> fairly clear. I don't believe it was an owl -- certainly none I'm
>>> familiar with. Its quality reminded me of a gull call, but much
>>> louder. I wonder if it could be some sort of misplaced domestic fowl.
>>> The calls are louder and softer, to suggest the caller is facing
>>> sometimes away and sometimes toward us. It seems to be emanating from
>>> approximately the same area every night, about 1/8 mile away, at a
>>> property that currently is unoccupied. Probably overgrown grassy and
>>> shrubby area with saplings --
>>> a pond and dense woods are nearby.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>>> Karen Gray
>>> Summit County - Copley Twp
>>
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