 male’s loud bob-o-link a harsh guttural chuck three-syllable song, coo-coo-cup a faint and thin bee-yup or yep a single, loud klee-yer a short, creaky koguba-leek a loud and high repeated seep low grunts a series of clear, thin whistles and trills occasionally a nasal grating sound a weak twittering delivered from the ground a whining mag or a mellow wurp a rapid tremulous trill three to eight loud and deep hoots a plaintive, whistled pee-ee a loud quavering, descending whistle cheerily, cheer-up, cheerio a high, duck-like squak gobble, gobble *In Attendance: Bobolink; Bronzed Cowbird, Euyrasian Collared-Dove; Golden Eagle; Northern Flicker; Common Grackle; Blue-throated Hummingbird; Glossy Ibis; Yellow-eyed Junco; Snail Kite; Horned Lark; Black-billed Magpie; Lesser Nighthawk; Great Horned Owl; Say’s Phoebe; Montezuma Quail; American Robin; Pin-tailed Snipe; Wild Turkey Found poem National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America |
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AuthorNancy Harris McLelland taught creative writing, composition, and literature for over twenty years and Conducted writing workshops for the Western Folklife Center, Great Basin College , and the Great Basin Writing Project . An Elko County native with a background in ranching. McLelland has presented her "Poems from Tuscarora" Both at daytime and evening events at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko. Her essay, "Border Lands: Cowboy Poetry and the Literary Canon" is in the anthology Cowboy Poetry Matters . Categories |
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