\nContinuing from yesterday’s post,<\/a> I want to talk more about the red-breasted nuthatch’s voice.<\/p>\n \nThe commanding, repeating tone it makes that’s rather like an alarm from a timer has been one call I’ve been hearing from the red-breasted nuthatch, yet there’ve been others. All these calls have been new to me and began this spring.<\/p>\n Two days ago, my son and I were outside when I heard these new calls rotating as if they were on a playlist. Eventually I realized they were coming from the same location. I turned to my son. “Hear that?” I asked. He listened a couple of minutes, then confirmed he did.<\/p>\n As we both listened I zeroed in on where the bird must be. “That’s all from one bird – it’s doing that just to confuse us,” I ventured.<\/p>\n “Really?” he replied. His disbelief was understandable: the different calls were so distinct from each other.<\/p>\n One of its calls sounds like a muffled machine gun. It’s a continuous trill. Next it has one that reminds me of a starling, more of a throaty cackle.<\/p>\n I only saw it make the pleasant-sounding alarm clock call; the rest I confirmed by research. When this bird’s around, it sings up a storm. As I say, this is the first year we’ve had a pair in the yard.<\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n allaboutbirds.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor continues about the red-breasted nuthatch. Continuing from yesterday’s post, I want to talk more about the red-breasted nuthatch’s voice. The commanding, repeating tone it makes that’s rather like an alarm from a timer has been …<\/p>\n