what i wonder do these birds perch on a branch? I can stand beneath the tree (but it's too dark to see it) and it carries on regardless, nothing seems to make it fly off. I mentioned this phenomenon on PABIRDS and got a huge response so I decided to go into more detail here.According to Cornell Lab, hooded mergansers are silent except in courtship when the male gives a deep rolling frog-like sound, recorded Amy Taracido says their voice sounds like “merg merrrrrrrrg” – a perfect description and one that makes me laugh when I say it.Besides the sheer amusement of hearing a bird make this noise, it’s curious that this is considered a courtship sound. i think it was a hooded mergansers female, it had feet like a duck or heron, but landed on a branch in a tree, it didn’t move, but i got it to call, and it sounded like merg gerrrrr, pitch of a frog. I am stumped.Sha7260, they may be bitterns. thank you for someone to put this on the web, so i could look it up.i got more information, and what i saw was a female hooded merganser, they live in holes in trees, therefore they must light on branches, i have small fish in my pond, what they live on, and live with woodducks, i have a woodduck house in my pond. It’s a cool way t bring some sound back to your videos.What frogs and toads will you find in your neighborhood?Phone Skope Promise - Phone Skope products are covered by a no-fault, Lifetime warranty.Looking for Skoped Industries products in your neck of the woods? They are really hard to find too.Occasionally Northern Mockingbirds will mimic frogs mixed in with their repertoires and often late at night into the early morning hours. Whenever I pass by a meadow, I hear this frog-like sound. Last evening about 6:00 pm, we were walking around a small lake near our home, when a flock of about 20 or so birds flew in and landed in two trees near us. Loved the veery!What time of day do you hear this sound? They call and answer each other.Most likely you are hearing tree frogs, but you may never see them because they blend in perfectly with the bark. Browse Gardening and Landscaping Stories on Houzz On migration southward, the hooded mergs might be in “dating” mode, especially the young ducks who haven’t bred yet.
If you wish to use a photo please leave a comment with your request. Mergansers might even need some get-acquainted time before they make a choice.Haha, I just came across this entry too! Check out our Dealer Locator to find the closest retailer to you.Phone Skope is dedicated to providing our customers with the best products and customer service possible. (also saw your 1/14/09 crossbill entry)….yes my husband and I observed them at PISP (Erie Co.) and came up with that sound to imitate the males….we often joke about it too.Interesting fact, which I was luck enough to experience first hand today 13the Nov 2009, at around 3 PM at a pond in Col Sam Smith park,Etobicoke, Ontario, I also heard and saw how they make that sound and how they stretch theur black neck long and the head is then tilted backwards as they make the sound. Acris gryllus - Southern Cricket Frog. Then last week I went to visit grandchildren and heard that same sound and again it was only 1 calling out. HU, it probably IS a frog. But it's a simpler, more full throated sound. If I wanted to know what something was I had to ask my parents (who weren’t all that familiar with the outdoor world) or rely on books. Maybe they're fast moving frogs? I thought it was someones bed springs because that's the pace it goes but it's coming from the two trees 100ft. Or there's lots of them? This frog occurs mainly in the southwest corner of Tennessee. Modern glass and stone structures hug two waterways on a sprawling Texas Hill Country compound These days I can use I know my neighbors think I’m nuts when I’m staring at what looks like a dead pond in the spring.The more I learn about frogs, the more I appreciate how something so tiny can be so loud.
They make a load sound like a green tree frog. I thought it was a frog, but when I approached, a bird took off and the meadow went silent. Males use their nasally barks to impress females. Though they lack the brilliant colors of other warbler species, breeding males are a crisp mixture of gray head, white stripe over the eye, and green back. They are hard to spot but fit your description. The fluffy white ptarmigan sounds more like a cartoon character (think Porky Pig or Glenn Quagmire) than an actual bird. It could drown them out!When I took this photo I was aiming at the leopard frog on the left…when I came home and uploaded my photos I noticed the toad in back on the right. These birds with trilled songs are probably the birds that sound most like a gray tree frog.