Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Brewer's Sparrow in Brier (Snohomish Co.)
Date: May 26 15:39:44 2009
From: Tayler Brooks - greenjaytay at comcast.net


Hello again Tweeters,
I've uploaded the Brewer's Sparrow recording as a video to ImageShack.

http://img531.imageshack.us/my.php?image=brspvid20473064tn8.flv

Happy birding,

~Tayler Brooks
Brier, WA
greenjaytay at comcast.net

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Tayler Brooks <greenjaytay at comcast.net>wrote:

> Hello Tweeters,
> About 20 minutes ago, I had a BREWER'S SPARROW vocalizing from some low
> shrubbery in my neighbor's yard. With microphone in hand I flung myself out
> the door in time to record a short clip of the bird's song before it flew
> off to the northwest and out of sight. The sparrow was extremely active and
> only stayed around for a few minutes.
>
> If anyone would like to hear the recording, please e-mail me.
>
> Sorry for not reporting this earlier, but for several days last week a
> DUSKY FLYCATCHER was present in my back yard. On May 19th I finally managed
> good views of the bird as it whitted while insect hunting on the edge of a
> patch of woodland directly behind my house. The flycatcher showed a
> distinctly longer tail and shorter primary projection than two other
> Hammond's Flycatchers (which were giving their much different 'pip' call)
> that were also in the immediate area the same morning.
>
> I was able to record the Empid and the following spectrogram compares
> another clip of Dusky Flycatcher calls to my recording:
>
> http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9069/empidsplice.jpg
>
> I would also be happy to send out my DUFL clip to any who are interested.
>
> Happy birding,
>
> ~Tayler Brooks
> Brier, WA
> greenjaytay at comcast.net
>
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