>From Dennis:
>The best bet to me is just to try to track down every unfamiliar bird
>vocalization and identify it.
YES!

>I also found my learning enhanced by reading
>R. T. Peterson's descriptions, to which I could often relate. For example,
>I identified my first singing Chestnut-sided Warbler when I heard something
>that sounded like "I wish to see Miss Beecher," a phrase I had read in
>Peterson years before.

The greatest travesty in the revision of the Peterson guides was the
slashing of memorable song descriptions. Do I exaggerate?
--
Scott Richardson
NE Seattle
salix at halcyon.com