Subject: Birding by Ear
Date: May 18 13:39:20 2000
From: Kelly Cassidy - lostriver at seanet.com


>
>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):


I'd go with White-crowned Sparrow, which I'd describe as
"Chuur, chuur, chuppa-chuppa-zeee." Fairly slow too.

The last part of the Bewick's wren song is loud and ringing, and Song
Sparrows don't have a song easily (to my ears, anyway) described in words.

Kelly Cassidy