This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01BDEB11.22535560 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Saturday, I got my first look at a Gray-Cheeked/ Bicknel's. The bird = was even singing. Yet I still did not feel comfortable assigning a name = to it....I diagrammed the song the best I could in my note book.... but = unfortunately when I got home that night I found myself very uncetain as = to which bird I heard. Furthermore, My Peterson CD. Eastern/Central Bird = Songs version of a Gray-Cheeked Thrush sounded different from the Thayer = version. In fact I thought in some ways it sounded more like a = Bicknel's. Anybody know any easy sure fire ways to separate the two = auditorily. I find the songs fairly complex .... in my Thayer versions = the Gray-Cheeked seemed to be a Four part song with the last notes being = fairly emphatic and ending on downward note like a declarative = statement. The Bicknell's always seemed to end on an slightly upward = note like an interrogative. I also notcied that the introductory notes for the Gray-Cheeked reminded me of the call = notes of a Scarlet Tanager (sort of a strecth). Still these to me are = subtle differances and am doubtful that I will remember these finer = points by the time I cross paths with another Gray-Cheeked /Bicknell's = thrush. The bird was seen in the woods behind the Snickers Gap = Hawkwatch on Saturday around 7:30 am. The hawk flight was another good = day for Snickers with a grand total of 920 raptors recorded=20 for the day.=20 William Leigh ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01BDEB11.22535560 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">