Date:         Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:26:12 -0400
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From:         Bob Hartman <rhartman0@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: birdsong help?
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Thanks for your input, Jordan and Paula - I'm sure it wasn't a Field
Sparrow.  Instead of gradually accelerating and rising in
pitch, as does the sparrow, this song had 3 distinct parts.  In
each of the parts, the pace and pitch were constant; each part
was faster and higher than the previous.  (There were a couple
of Field Sparrows singing at Little Bennett yesterday.)

I haven't heard a lot of Tennessee Warblers singing, and that
hadn't occurred to me.  However, I just listened to the BNA
recording, and it wasn't very similar.  The bird I heard
yesterday was much more musical, and the final trill was very
fast, much faster than the Tennessee recording (which sounds
like the few I've heard).

"Wilkerson, Jordan T." wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> your song description sounds liek the Field Sparrow song.  Could that be it?
>
> Jordan
> Cloverly, MD


"Paula M. Sullivan" wrote:
>
> Hello Bob,
>
> Has anyone suggested Tennessee Warbler? That's what it sounds like to
> me.
>
> Paula Sullivan
> Alexandria

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Hartman
> To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
> Sent: 4/20/2002 8:43 PM
> Subject: [MDOSPREY] birdsong help?
>
> 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
>
>

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