Hi Tweets,

I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up being embarrassed about this, but I don't recognize a repeated call I heard this morning in Lincoln Park. I was never able to lay eyes on the bird with binocs or camera or naked eye; it was making its way through shrubbery in the central part of Lincoln Park, then flew to a nearby bare tree, then finally out of auditory range. It stayed generally about 10-20' up.

Its call was a quick, fairly high-pitched "dis-donc" with the second note a fifth lower than the first. The call was repeated at intervals of slightly less than a second, for maybe 20-30 reps at a time. I've used my iBird Pro sound search and listened to every likely listed forest species for February in Washington, and none of them match, to my ear at least.

I have a faint 5-sec recording at http://www.flickr.com/photos/trileigh/12506677934/ if you'd like to try your caller ID skills.

Again, I figure the chances are it's an incredibly common local bird I just haven't been paying enough attention to, but I'm willing to embarrass myself in order to learn?thanks in advance for your help.

Separately, it was fun just now watching an Anna's Hummingbird waiting impatiently a couple of inches behind the Chestnut-Backed Chickadee who was drinking sugar water from his feeder. I keep hoping to see the Townsend's Warbler who's also enjoyed this feeder in recent years.

Good birding,
Trileigh

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Trileigh Tucker
Lincoln Park, West Seattle
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