Subject: Birding by Ear
Date: May 18 10:02:29 2000
From: Rick Romea - romea at pmel.noaa.gov


I think you're hearing our Puget Sound summer resident sub-species of
White-crowned Sparrow.
The 'hook' for this song is usually written as:

"see..see...pretty-pretty-me... phhhht"

(the phhhht is like a rasberry, or a trill)

Rick Romea
Seattle, WA