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Pete's avatar

Hi Bob,

Your knocking noise is the call of a yellow-billed cuckoo.

The mushroom on the top right is a Ruby Bolete (Hortiboletus rubellus)

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Robert Leonard's avatar

Thanks much Pete! Merlin has identified the sound of the yellow-billed cuckoo a couple of times before, but not today. Thanks again. Your comments are very helpful!

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Al Batt's avatar

It is an Ebony Jewelwing. The loveliest damselfy, I think, but there are competitors.

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Al Batt's avatar

An Eastern Chipmunk is doing the clucking. Thanks for your interesting walks and photos.

https://www.google.com/search?q=chipmunk+call&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f401a3d2,vid:QgoTM4RZF7o

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Robert Leonard's avatar

Thank you. And thanks for your work. Where would you like me to tell readers to go to follow what you are doing?

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Al Batt's avatar

Mange takk. I’m at albatt.com

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Bob Shreck's avatar

Doctor Bob,

Thank you for enabling me to enjoy the tick-infested, poison ivy-plastered outdoors the same way I enjoy hunting and fishing--VICARIOUSLY!

Keep them cards and letters comin’!

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Robert Leonard's avatar

Oh, Bob. If you were out there with me in the woods you would have gone nose to nose with the snapping turtle too!

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JD's avatar

Symphonic.

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Rita Gergely's avatar

I think that the knocking noise is a woodpecker pecking on something. When I have heard them in my yard, the pecking noise is ususlly faster. One year, at least one woodpecker decided to attack the metal gutter outside my office window. That was LOUD.

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Robert Leonard's avatar

Thanks! Also, please check out Pete's comment.

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