Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:49:11 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Shirley Ford Subject: Re: Can't identify MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Leslie The further on into spring will yield many more exciting birds for you to see. Now we need you to get involved with the Washington Co. Ornithological Society group. We love to have new birders come into the group and many of us can help you with learning your birds. Our next meeting is Mar. 23 and you can call Anna Hutzell for directions. Shirley Ford bluebirdlover@desupernet.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger & Leslie Torres" To: Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:48 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Can't identify > My husband and I made it out to Snavely Ford Trail in Antietam today. There > wasn't much to see due to the wind, I guess. But I did see some Song > Sparrows, Common Ravens and Eastern Bluebirds. (I don't have exact counts - > I was too busy enjoying two hours away from the kids!) There were a couple > of birds calling and answering that I spent about an hour and a half > on eNature.com trying to identify. As new as I am to birding, I'm > even newer at identifying bird calls and songs, so forgive me! > Hopefully some of you who can help me out there are musicians, because > that's the only context I can put it in. What I heard was like > "tri-pe-let, tri-pe-let, tri-pe-let, cheep" with the triplet going > from high to low, and the cheep being higher. > It was repeated many times back and forth. I'd recognize it if I > heard it. > Can anyone out there narrow it down and maybe give me another website > that I > can check for calls? > > Thanks in advance! > Leslie > Keedysville, MD > > PS Thanks to you who suggested Snavely Ford Trail. It was beautiful. And > best of all, it's only 5 minutes away from my home! I'll be returning later > this spring. > > ====================================================================== > = > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================