Subject: Re: Song ID
Date: Apr 26 09:46:14 1994
From: Eugene Hunn - hunn at u.washington.edu


The buzzy song sounds like a Black-throated Gray to me, and in oaks.

Gene Hunn.

On Mon, 25 Apr 1994 Skip_Russell at intersolv.com wrote:

>
>
> >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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