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


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Shireen Gonzaga/Baltimore, MD


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