Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 05:34:26 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: June Tveekrem Subject: Re: birdsong help? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bob, Your description sounds to me like some Wood Thrushes I heard last year. They didn't sound like the "bee-o-lay" often quoted, but instead like "dee-doo-lee-doo-trill" where the trill was noticeably higher pitched than the rest of the song. Since people have been reporting Wood Thrushes lately, could that be what you heard? It would also be consistent with your report that the bird was in second-growth vegetation, and apparently perched rather low (at least low compared to most warblers). ================================= June Tveekrem Columbia, Howard County, MD tweekiebird@toadmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Hartman" To: Sent: April 22, 2002 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] birdsong help? > 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). > > -----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 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================