Dear Bob,

  Sounds loke song #1 could be a carolina chickadee. Are you familiar with
cc?

    #2. can you be more specific? did the pitch change for the ist 5 notes.
How different than rc kinglet?
What habitat? Fox sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, winter wren?

    good birding!

        Taylor McLean

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From: "Bob Hartman" <>
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Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 1:20 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Little Bennett Saturday AM


> Didn't find a lot of birds at LB today, but it was very enjoyable because
> the weather was great, and most of the birds were singing.  Migrants were
> scarce:  3 gnatcatchers, 2 or 3 La. Waterthrushes singing vigorously.  I
> guess the phoebe building a nest on the utility wires where they go into
the
> old schoolhouse is a migrant also, albeit short-distance.
>
> A female bluebird was very busy building a nest in one the boxes; her mate
> was sitting in a nearby tree, looking magnificent - moral support, anyway.
>
> Field sparrows and towhees were singing everywhere.  Maybe the best song
was
> that of a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.  Not quite the same song they sing on the
> breeding grounds, but quite recognizable.
>
> A Fish Crow flew over, croaking.  Shouldn't they be over along the coast
by
> now?
>
> I heard a couple of bird songs I couldn't identify:
> 1. "Knee-deep", always on one pitch, very musical, repeated every few
> seconds until I tried to get closer, when it stopped and wasn't heard
again.
> 2. A series of 8-10 single notes repeated about once a second, but not
quite
> regularly spaced.  Sometimes the series was followed by an extended
musical
> rising trill.  This was much louder than the Song Sparrow singing from the
> same bush.
>
> Any suggestions as to IDs?
>
>     Bob Hartman
>     Colesville, MD
>
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