Subject: Re: Strange warbler song
Date: Jun 14 06:35:53 1996
From: Jerry Tangren - tangren at wsu.edu


Or a Golden-crowned Kinglet--unless I'm way off in interpreting your
description.

>Michael Price asked -
>
>>While biking up at UBC near the Anthrop Museum (biking for exercise, no bins
>>allowed, wouldntcha know it ;-) I heard a strange song, pretty sure it's a
>>warbler.
>>
>>A quiet, weak, high-pitched and not very rapid song from near the top of a
>>small cedar at the Anthrop Museum, given about every 15 sec. Wasn't wiry or
>>buzzy or burry, just a kind-of wispy, unassertive
>>'deedledeedledeedle-tititi-zizi' I thought of variant or first-year male
>>Townsend's or Yellow-rumped, but it just didn't sound right for them. Also,
>>and I don't know why I think this, but I'm certain it wasn't a whisper song.
>>
>>I sent the above as a query to Al Jaramillo, but I guess he's away again.
>>Public or private replies welcomed.
>
>Brown Creeper??? Two whacks on the carrier for no bins. You must do
>penance and just
>ferret out this creature again.
>
> - Jack
>
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