Subject: What song is that, again? & WC Sparrows
Date: Apr 16 13:44:23 1999
From: Rob Conway - robin_birder at hotmail.com


Eric and Tweets,

Sounds like the ever repeating Dark-eyed Junco thread. This is the
time of year they climb to the top of the trees and send out that
rapid fire rattle - they can even "throw" their voices, making it
impossible to locate them. Another possibility is an early arrival
warbler of some type or another, hard to tell without hearing the
actual "song".

Took a lunchtime walk this afternoon (who can resist 80f.?) and heard
both White-crowned sparrows (pug. and gam.) singing. They are THICK
in the small sparsely vegetated margin between I90 and SE36th in
Bellevue (the street that has Attachmate, Bellevue Honda and King
County Planning on it) - a different singer every 50-100 feet or so.


Rob Conway
Bellevue, WA

robin_birder at hotmail.com

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>From: StahlfeldE at aol.com
>Reply-To: StahlfeldE at aol.com
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: What song is that, again?
>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:03:11 EDT
>
>Tweeters:
>
>Along the "I know that song, but it's been too long since last year"
theme,
>any suggestions what bird was the cause of the following:
>
> A "breeep," in a small grove of fir, fairly high up,
repeating every
>second or so, occasionally no pause, occasionally two- or three-
second pause,
>loud, similar to flicker but longer, less harsh and more tone, pitch
ever so
>slightly rising in middle, end falling but not quite as low as at
beginning,
>continued for at least five minutes, in residential Burien. It
really was
>frustrating not being able to see that thing.
>
>Eric Stahlfeld


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