While listening to a song try to write a phrase you believe fits the song.
If this is not helpful; it can be amusing.  I recall hearing the Soldier's
Delight Summer Tanager sing: We-are-here where-at where-are-you we-care.

Also, check this web site for bird mnemonics:
http://www.caculo.com/mnemonics.htm

Keith Eric Costley

Randallstown, Baltimore County, MD

on 4/29/04 11:51 AM, Shireen Gonzaga at  wrote:

> It happens every year. Warblers reduce me to tears and give me a major
> inferiority complex.
>
> OK, here's my super-dumb question. When you hear a song in the field (and of
> course, the bird's not visible or all you can see is its little butt), how do
> you make a mental note of it, so you can try to identify it from "birding by
> ear"? Do you scribble down little symbols that describe the song? Do you have
> any memorization tricks?
>
> My nightmare has begun. This morning, I'm lying in bed trying to wake up and I
> hear this little voice. Sounds like the beginning of a Nashville (which I
> determined from listening to 'More Birding by Ear'), but then it drops off
> without a downward trill.
>
> Please help me. I don't think I can stand another year of having my fragile
> ego crushed once again by those little monsters.
>
> Thanks,
> shireen, very afraid of warblers
>
>
> --
> Shireen Gonzaga/Baltimore, MD
> 
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