Subject: [Tweeters] Odd voiced American Robin in Seward Park - recording
Date: May 20 18:48:28 2006
From: squeakyfiddle at aol.com - squeakyfiddle at aol.com


I've been hearing a robin with an odd voice in Seward Park regularly
now for about 3 weeks. It's making me crazy. I go to the park almost
every day, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in mid-afternoon,
sometimes in late afternoon. It's there every time I go, and the call
is incessant. I swear it's a robin. I've watched it calling. It looks
like a robin. It acts like a robin. It makes the proper robin alarm
call when it dives into the brush. It just doesn't sing like a robin at
all.

On the 10th I recorded it, and have put an MP3 of the recording up at
http://www.squeakyfiddle.com/seward. Could someone give it a listen and
let me know if you've ever heard anything like it? The MP3 is about
1.1MB and runs approx 2 minutes with a quiet place in the middle. I
could have continued to record. The bird goes on and on and on.

Contact me off-list if you want directions to where it can be
seen/heard. It's been hanging out in the same place since I first heard
it. Also let me know if you can't access the MP3.

Thanks,
Catherine Alexander
Lakewood neighborhood
South Seattle