I kind of like a white-crowned sparrow. The cadence and mnemonic I use for
this is

'Old man sitting in a tree house' at least for ours in Seattle, they sound
a bit different elsewhere

Mike Wile
Redmond, WA
mike.wile at attws.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: Calvin Gehlen [mailto:calvin at inisystems.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 8:59 AM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: RE: Birding by Ear


Nick,

Well now, "Haw-hees" are a bit cryptic, but that sounds like a Song Sparrow.


Happy Birding!

Calvin Gehlen
Vancouver, BC
calvin at GoBirding.com
It's time to go birding at www.GoBirding.com


-----Original Message-----
From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu
[mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of NJPharris at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 9:30 AM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Birding by Ear

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