Might be a hermit thrush:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/hermit_thrush/id
Link has sound files available.
--Abby Larson
Seattle, WA

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Lydia Gaebe Bishop
<lydiagaebe at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Tweeties!
>
> I am hearing an unusual bird sound coming from deep in my rhody bushes.
> It is a soft, melodic "liquid" sort of sound. The only visible birds in
> the same area are juncos and both black-cap and chestnut back chickadees.
> If I go out to check on the sound, it ceases, but no birds fly out of the
> bushes!
>
> I've not heard it in previous early fall seasons.
>
> Any idea? I'll try and record it when all is quiet.
>
> Lydia
> Near Snohomish, WA
>
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