>I have another song. This was an unseen bird perched somewhere in a
>scrub oak on the Nike property in Beaverton (even if I had my binoculars
>I might not have found this bird ;-).
>
>The song, repeated every few minutes, was a buzzy tee-tee-te-te-teeee-tee.
>(the number of e's are meant to represent the cadence of the te notes)

Could be a White-crowned Sparrow, but they usually have a few non-buzzy
notes thrown in. Don't rule out the dendroica warblers. Black-throated
Grays arrived en masse this weekend.


>The song is three notes, each of fairly equal length, in
>a descending triplet. This particular one (I tested it against
>my piano) is G# - F - C#, two octaves above middle C.
>
>It reminds me irresistably of one of the Brandenburg Concerti,
>which begins the same way.

Golden-crowned Sparrow for sure. Verbal descriptions of bird songs are
hard, but I have to say that this is one of the best I've seen!

Skip

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