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0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: --001a113f911cdab0a4051b6b4742 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Merlins would be my vote too. Richard On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Nancy Roberts < nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > Thank you Ron Arsenault and Jim Wolford for your suggestions about the > osprey-like shrieks. > > Bernard Burke, who lives not too far from me, has heard the same and on > one occasion saw that the source of sound was blue jay(s). > > The only time I saw a bird that COULD have been associated with the noise, > it was also a blue jay. > > We have had no sign or ravens or merlins in the immediate vicinity, so I > am now hypothesizing blue jays. > > Thanks to all, > > Nancy > > Nancy Roberts Design > Celebrating 23 years of making you look GOOD > > See my ceramic sculpture at > http://swoonfineart.com/index.php/home/artists/nancy_roberts/ > > Dartmouth, NS B2Y 2X6 > 902 461-9488 > > > > On 21-Jul-15, at 4:02 PM, Ronald Arsenault wrote: > > Merlins? > On Jul 21, 2015 3:08 PM, "Nancy Roberts" <nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca> > wrote: > >> I have been hearing this all summer, many days each week. The closest >> thing I know to it is when ospreys are calling to each other while wheeling >> high up. >> >> The sounds I have been hearing, first thought to be ospreys, are >> definitely coming from dense treetops. I look hard, but don't see movement >> or flight in or out. >> >> The cries and their rhythm are similar to ospreys', but a little more >> closely spaced and a little less bell-like. >> >> Rather loud for young calling to their parents unless they are large >> birds. >> >> Any clues from this vague description? Could it be raccoons? >> >> Neighbourhood is central Dartmouth near Sullivan's pond. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Nancy >> >> Dartmouth, NS B2Y 2X6 >> 902 461-1986 >> >> >> >> > -- ################# Dr.R.B.Stern, P.O. Box 300, Port Williams, N.S., Canada, B0P 1T0 Richard Stern, Port Williams, NS, Canada sternrichard@gmail.com ################### --001a113f911cdab0a4051b6b4742 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Merlins would be my vote too.<div><br></div><div>Richard</= div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue,= Jul 21, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Nancy Roberts <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"ma= ilto:nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca" target=3D"_blank">nancy.roberts@ns.symp= atico.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style= =3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div sty= le=3D"word-wrap:break-word">Thank you Ron Arsenault and Jim Wolford for you= r suggestions about the osprey-like shrieks.<div><br></div><div>Bernard Bur= ke, who lives not too far from me, has heard the same and on one occasion s= aw that the source of sound was blue jay(s).</div><div><br></div><div>The o= nly time I saw a bird that COULD have been associated with the noise, it wa= s also a blue jay.</div><div><br></div><div>We have had no sign or ravens o= r merlins in the immediate vicinity, so I am now hypothesizing blue jays.</= div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to all,</div><div><br></div><div>Nancy<br><d= iv> <span style=3D"border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:He= lvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spa= cing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text= -transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div = style=3D"word-wrap:break-word"><span style=3D"border-collapse:separate;colo= r:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;fo= nt-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webki= t-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:= 0px;font-size:medium"><div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word"><span style=3D"te= xt-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px"><div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word">= <span style=3D"text-indent:0px"><div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word"><span s= tyle=3D"text-indent:0px"><div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word"><span style=3D= "text-indent:0px"><div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word"><span style=3D"text-i= ndent:0px"><span style=3D"text-indent:0px"><div style=3D"border-collapse:se= parate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:nor= mal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-heigh= t:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br>Nancy= Roberts Design</div><div style=3D"border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0= );font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:norma= l;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transfor= m:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Celebrating 23 years of making = you look GOOD</div><div style=3D"border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);= font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;= font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:= none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div>See my ceramic scu= lpture at =C2=A0<a href=3D"http://swoonfineart.com/index.php/home/artists/n= ancy_roberts/" target=3D"_blank">http://swoonfineart.com/index.php/home/art= ists/nancy_roberts/</a></div><div><br></div><div style=3D"border-collapse:s= eparate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:no= rmal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-heig= ht:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Dartmout= h, NS B2Y 2X6</div><div style=3D"border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);= font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;= font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:= none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">902 461-9488</div><br></span><br>= </span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></d= iv></span> </div><div><div class=3D"h5"><br><div><div>On 21-Jul-15, at 4:02= PM, Ronald Arsenault wrote:</div><br><blockquote type=3D"ci