[obol] Pacific-slope vocalizations

[pamela johnston]

This afternoon for the first time I heard a Warbling Vireo in the woods 
alongside our yard. A little later I was still thinking of WAVI when I 
walked down to the mailbox and heard a harsh call that would not have been 
out of place coming from some Vireo species. It sounded a bit like a small 
bird giving the raspberry (or Bronx cheer if you like). It was a 
Pacific-slope Flycatcher ejecting an interloper from his territory. The 
intruder went rocketing across the road while the owner continued to rasp 
from a perch on my side, then resumed singing.

Pamela Johnston, outside McMinnville