Animal Calls with Gerals Stewart
Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife
Next time you’re in the untamed outdoors, and want to attract native wildlife – kiss the palm of your hand.
[kissing sound] I can do that to a bobcat that’s sitting out there behind a bush at a hundred yards, and it’ll start him towards me almost immediately. It just sounds delicious.
Delicious like a rodent. Gerald Stewart is a consultant for Johnny Stewart wildlife calls. Gerald’s father, Johnny, created a business featuring recorded animal sounds.
Dad realized early on in the development of the business, that these sounds could be used by quite a wide variety of people. Photographers, nature lovers, bird watchers, hunters, researchers, or people that just want to simply show their grandkids [raccoon call] the eyes of a raccoon coming through the grass at night…just for the joy of being able to see something wild, literally a few feet away from them.
Screech owls are common in residential neighborhoods, and are a good animal to call when you’re with children.
[screech owl]
It’s easier to call screech owls with children around. Screech owls are a gregarious little bird, very social. And will put up with human presence. After a minute or two of being there, humans can just start talking and milling around and the little screech owl just sits in the tree.
Learn about native wildlife by logging onto the Texas Parks and Wildlife web site.
That’s our show for today. For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I’m Cecilia Nasti.
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