8/16/2023 0 Comments Fog horn sound alarm clock![]() ![]() Or you’ll learn to give a Killdeer some space because it’s “trilling” to protect its nest. Honing your birding ear can also reveal hidden details in the field. For instance, you’ll know to look for raptors when you hear songbirds whistle in alarm. With a little practice, you can begin decoding all those songs and calls, which will in turn give you remarkable insights into the species around you. It's loud, it's raucous, and for the untrained ear, it's often incoherent. Spring’s here, and there’s a birdy party raging outdoors. To catch up, check out part 1, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, and part 8. In part 2, Bird and Moon creator Rosemary Mosco takes you through the various sounds you hear and what they mean to birds (and to birders). Follow along with our birding-by-ear series to learn how to better ID birds through their vocalizations. The sheer volume of songs and calls can often feel overwhelming for birders, but these sounds offer both an opportunity and a challenge. He can be heard weekly on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories.Editor’s Note: There's a lot to look forward to in spring, including the welcomed hullabaloo of birdsong. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club. In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry. ![]() Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press. He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. Since then, Brandon Schmitz shared an audio recording of the horn.)īorn in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side. (NOTE: A reader who was out on the breakwall as the cruise ship passed, confirmed that it was the ship sounding its horn, one blast at a time, not two as would have been the case had it been the lighthouse foghorn. However, it's possible it was the foghorn mounted outside the Art Deco breakwater lighthouse that is a Milwaukee landmark, activated by the passing vessel. Most likely the vessel was sounding its own horn, as a dense fog advisory at the shore and on the lake was in effect from 11:59 a.m. – the same time that the Vantage Cruise Line's Ocean Explorer departed Port Milwaukee's South Shore Cruise Dock, destined for Mackinac Island. It was reportedly sounding for about an hour beginning around 8 p.m. That may be the reason for the horn, which was so loud that one person said it could be heard in Riverwest, “as loud as day.” A Facebook commenter said she heard it at 14th and Oklahoma. ![]() “If there was a vessel out there (in the fog) it would be required to sound its horn.” “We wouldn’t be the ones sounding that foghorn,” I was told this morning. Coast Guard in many years, and a call over to the the USCG station in Bay View confirmed that. The lighthouse's horn hasn’t been routinely activated by the U.S. But it may or may not have been the breakwater lighthouse foghorn that used to lull so many of us to sleep. It was a foghorn, of course, more than likely from a ship's horn. ![]()
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