At 9:48 PM -0400 5/20/06, squeakyfiddle at aol.com wrote:
>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.

Cool! It's Robby One-note. Just think of the possibilities; if this
guy successfully mates with this song, and his offspring learn that
song and successfully mate, pretty soon we could have a Northwest
Robin to argue about along with the Northwest Crow.

Seriously, on a cursory listen, the tempo and phrasing sound like
AMRO to me, just without the melody. Maybe it's deaf.
--
Rob Saecker
Olympia
rsaecker at thurston.com