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!
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.
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)
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!
It is an Ebony Jewelwing. The loveliest damselfy, I think, but there are competitors.
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
Thank you. And thanks for your work. Where would you like me to tell readers to go to follow what you are doing?
Mange takk. I’m at albatt.com
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’!
Oh, Bob. If you were out there with me in the woods you would have gone nose to nose with the snapping turtle too!
Symphonic.
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.
Thanks! Also, please check out Pete's comment.