Guess #1 Song Sparrow
Which I characterize as: "Tooo-eee, twut, twut, twut, bee-oh"
and variations.

Guess #2 Bewick's Wren (when in doubt, call it Bewick's Wren)
A study done at Oregon State University identified 185 distinct
songs from a single individual, which it sang in the same order
every day.



NJPharris at aol.com wrote:
>
> Hey, all you birders by ear out there, maybe you can help me with this one...
>
> There is something outside my office window that sings a very distinctive
> song all day, but I can't think what it is--probably a House Sparrow or
> something else really common and/or non-native :-P.
>
> Anyway, the song goes something like "Haw, hee, chewy, chewy, trrrrr". For
> those of you with a musical frame of mind like mine, the song sounds like it
> is in a fairly slow four beat (I'll mark the beats with |'s):
>
> |Haw |Hee-chewy |Chewy-trr |rrrr
>
> [Haw = quarter note; hee = eighth note; chewy = 2 sixteenth notes; trr =
> eighth note; rrrr = trailing off through last beat]
>
> I hope that makes some sense to someone out there! Now, what is that bird?
>
> Nick Pharris
> Olympia, WA
> NJPharris at aol.com

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