I've not made sound recordings of Anna's. I'm often mislead by the limited
number of recordings I have in my phone apps. Perhaps you could listen to
Anna's vocalization recordings at Xeno-canto.org.

https://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Calypte-anna

And similarly for other candidates. There might be a good variety there.

That site's been great for me for finding mystery bird sounds. The best for
me was identifying a sound that Boreal Owls were making that was quite
unlike the sounds in my apps. In the field it had us wondering what
critters were awake at that hour & brave enough to vocalize like that right
next to the owls.

Good birding,
Kevin

On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Tim Brennan <tsbrennan at hotmail.com> wrote:


> I pulled up the tic calls for Anna's and they sounded familiar, but not

> like the bird I heard. That said, I also pulled up Calliope and found

> similar calls... I think this is one to let go! I can't make it back out

> there right now, and it just seems like either of the other species besides

> Anna's here (Calliope or Costa's) would have looked an awful lot

> smaller/short-tailed. Thanks, Kevin!

>

>

> ------------------------------

> *From:* Kevin Lucas <vikingcove at gmail.com>

> *Sent:* Saturday, May 5, 2018 6:15 PM

> *To:* Tim Brennan

> *Cc:* Tweeters

> *Subject:* Re: [Tweeters] Renton mystery hummingbird???

>

> Tim,

>

> Anna's have overwintered, visiting feeders in our yard here in Selah, and

> previously in our yard in Yakima for six or so years. I often hear them

> ticking. I don't know if it's the same sound you heard. Sometimes the tick

> sounds like something a junco does. The quality and tempo of the tick

> varies. I've taken that as a sign of its varying level of annoyance with my

> presence near a feeder, or its message to other Anna's nearby, or something

> else. Juvenile males sound distinctly different than adult males.

>

> Kevin Lucas

> Selah, Yakima County, WA

>

>

> listing.aba.org/ethics/

> ABA Code of Birding Ethics - ABA Listing Central

> <http://listing.aba.org/ethics/>

> listing.aba.org

> American Birding Association Code of Birding Ethics. Downloads [PDF]

> English >> Spanish>> 1. Promote the welfare of birds and their environment.

> 1(a) Support the protection of important bird habitat.

>

>

>

> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Tim Brennan <tsbrennan at hotmail.com>

> wrote:

>

> Hey Tweets,

>

>

> I was taking a look at the Cedar River Mouth this morning, and found

> really nothing of interest on the water. I returned to the walking path at

> the very very north end, and found some bushtits, an Anna's Hummingbird,

> and then... I heard this tic tic tic tic tic.... tic tic tic... coming from

> a dense tree (.5-.8 seconds between tics, I decided). I could not place

> the sound at all, and walked to the bush thinking I would pish out a

> warbler, but a hummingbird popped out. I didn't pick up anything but green

> and white, and am no judge at all on size/tail length... you know, the

> *useful* things. The hummingbird gave one more round of tics before

> heading south to another tree. I had no means to photograph or record it,

> and heard no other sounds from the bird while it was in flight. I stayed

> long enough at the tree to confirm that there was nothing else in it (Just

> a little dwarf tree) that could have been making the sound, then dashed

> home.

>

>

> The closest thing I could find to this sound was a Costas Hummingbird,

> from the Cornell site and Xeno-Canto, but I haven't exhausted the search

> through Calliope and Black-chinned calls. I've never heard an Anna's or

> Rufous make any sound like this before, and am pretty familiar with those

> two species, of course. Any other ideas would be very welcome, and of

> course, if you have a chance to poke around, there's at the very least an

> interesting hummingbird at the Cedar River Mouth.

>

>

> Tim

>

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