Subject: Re: white crowned sparrows
Date: Jul 9 13:51:50 1996
From: Patricia Tucker Stroh - tri at seattleu.edu


Hi, Susan,
They're all over Seattle University (on First Hill in Seattle); their
song echoes like a mantra in my ears all day long (do-mi-dododododo, re
-- with regional dialects which sometimes leave off the "re").
By the way, how do others out there remember/transcribe bird
songs? I use the do-re-mi system if I have time, draw a line representing
approximate notes on a musical staff if not.

Trileigh Stroh


On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Susan L. Collicott wrote:

>
> Tweets -
>
> I've been spotting white crowned sparrows around town where I'd never
> thought to see them before.
>
> Yesterday, I was in a drive-through lane of a bank near Factoria, and
> there were white-crowned sparrows hopping along through the bark. At
> first I thought I was just mistaking a house sparrow, but they hopped
> right under my truck window and sure 'nuff, they really were white-crowned.
>
> Then, I spotted more hopping around the plantings on the edges of the
> parking lot at work (in Eastgate).
>
> Somehow I've never thought of them as sharing typical house sparrow
> urban areas. Is this a misconception on my part? Are they typically
> spotted in the city these days? Was this strange, to see them where I
> saw them?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Susan
> camel at serv.net
> Seattle, WA
>