> Date:         Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:11:14 -0400
> Reply-to:     Audubon birding discussion for WV
> <WV-BIRD@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG>
> From:         "Felton, Gary L" <glf1@CDC.GOV>
> Subject:      [WV-BIRD] WV and Md. birds and
> aberrant warbler songs
> To:           WV-BIRD@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG
>
> Birded Garrett County, Md and the Cranesville,
> WV area
> on Saturday with Jeanne Tinsman and Phil
> Calise.   The
> highlight birds in Md. were Red-headed
> Woodpecker,
> Henslow's, Grasshopper and Vesper Sparrows and
> Golden-winged Warbler.
>
> While looking for Mourning Warblers on the road
> to Roth Rock
> fire tower in Md., we heard a Chestnut-sided
> Warbler singing a
> song that none of us had ever heard before and
> were completey
> stumped by what it was until we saw it.  My
> best description of
> the song would be a cross between a House Wren
> and a
> Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
>
> Later in the day while searching for
> butterflies at Harrington
> Manor State Park in Md., Jeanne and I heard a
> male Golden-wing
> Warbler singing a song that neither of us had
> ever heard before.
> My first guess before we found the bird was
> that it was either
> a retarded Black-throated Green or a Cerulean.
>
> After we saw it, it began singing a typical,
> although only partial,
> GW song.  It was leaving off the first note of
> the normal, one note
> followed by three notes, song, and singing only
> two of the trailing
> three notes.  After that it began singing all
> three of the trailing three
> notes.  I don't recall it ever singing a
> complete, typical, GW song.
> Golden-winged Warblers have been present here
> for several years
> and two or three years ago a back-cross,
> Brewster's Warbler was
> present for a couple of years.
>
> Anyone else ever encounter stange songs from
> either Chestnut-sided
> or GW Warblers and especially similar to the
> ones I described
>
>
> Gary Felton
> GLF1@CDC.GOV
>
>
> ..
> >


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Frostburg, Maryland, USA

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