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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Hi, Gayle- To pish is to make a soft &quot;Pisssh!pisssh! ------=_Part_10751_4776281.1215533613356 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I doubt it , although female humans wearing bright red lipstick and keeping their mouth half open works to attract them (really - I've seen it). Pishing seems to work for Vireos, Warblers, Chickadees, Nuthatches, Finches and Sparrows, and seems to work best when there are young birds around. It doesn't seem to work at all for related birds in the UK (Don't know why). If you pish loudly at over-flying passerines, they will sometimes change direction and land nearby. However, I did once pish at a Gyrfalcon on a lone tree (!) and it turned its head to see if I was suitable prey. When it realized I probably wasn't, it proceeded to ignore me. Richard On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Jeff hiltz <4x4play@gmail.com> wrote: > LOL @ "pish anyone off" > > Is it common for Hummingbirds to come to a "pish"?? > > Jeff > > > ################## Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ################### ------=_Part_10751_4776281.1215533613356 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi,<br><br>I doubt it , although female humans wearing bright red lipstick and keeping their mouth half open works to attract them (really - I've seen it). Pishing seems to work for Vireos, Warblers, Chickadees, Nuthatches, Finches and Sparrows, and seems to work best when there are young birds around. It doesn't seem to work at all for related birds in the UK (Don't know why). If you pish loudly at over-flying passerines, they will sometimes change direction and land nearby. However, I did once pish at a Gyrfalcon on a lone tree (!) and it turned its head to see if I was suitable prey. When it realized I probably wasn't, it proceeded to ignore me.<br> <br>Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Jeff hiltz <4x4play@gmail.com> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>LOL @ "pish anyone off"</div> <div> </div> <div>Is it common for Hummingbirds to come to a "pish"??</div> <div> </div><font color="#888888"> <div>Jeff<br><br></div></font><div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>##################<br>Richard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br>B0P 1T0<br><br>rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca<br> rbstern@xcountry.tv
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