Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 20:43:38 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bob Hartman Subject: birdsong help? MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi All - At Little Bennett this morning I heard (but never saw) a bird singing persistently that has me really puzzled. It was a 3-part song, similar in pattern, but not in tone quality, to a Cerulean: a slow start, with the 2nd and 3rd parts progressively higher and faster, with the 3rd part a fast trill. Despite the similarity, it was like like no Cerulean I've heard before, either in person The most noticeable difference was tone quality, which was fuller and more musical, more like an oriole, but not an oriole pattern. In addition, it didn't seem to rise in pitch as much as a Cerulean. The bird was at the top of the hill that is across the road from the schoolhouse, in the second-growth stuff, so it certainly wasn't Cerulean habitat. I got pretty close (20-30 feet est.) before it moved away, but I never saw it, either perched or flying, so it must have been low. Opinions are solicited. Also heard what seemed to me to be an unusual towhee song: 3 single notes followed by a trill, but with the second note a single short very high-pitched squeak. Anybody heard this before? Never saw that one either, although it was repeated a number of times. Bob Hartman Colesville, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================