----- Original Message -----
From: "Taylor McLean" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Little Bennett Saturday AM


> Dear Bob,
>
>   Sounds loke song #1 could be a carolina chickadee. Are you familiar with
> cc?
I'm 99% sure it wasn't a chickadee - the tone quality was much more solid.
Chickadees have a rather thin tone.  June's suggestion that it was a frog
hadn't occurred to me, but it had a very musical voice (for that one note
that it sang repeatedly).

>
>     #2. can you be more specific? did the pitch change for the ist 5
notes.

The 8-10 repeated notes were very near the same pitch, but sometimes they
had a slight up-slur, less than a half-tone.

> How different than rc kinglet?

Very different from the kinglet.

> What habitat? Fox sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, winter wren?

Meadow, maybe an acre, with a few bushes and a couple of trees.  The sound
seemed to be coming from one of the bushes, but maybe from beyond it.  The
Song Sparrow I mentioned was on the bush and the tree over it.
>
>     good birding!
>
>         Taylor McLean
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Hartman" <>
> To: <>
> 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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