Well, even sticking my laptop into my ear I can't hear the second trill. Heck, I can barely hear the first one. The thing is the pitch of the first one is right on for D-e Junco, we are surrounded with them up here in the Hemlock Plantation. I have never heard them issue a later higher trill.
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 4:49 PM Barbara Bauer Sadovnic <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you all for the replies. > > Asher, Sandy, Laura, and Meena suggest dark-eyed junco. Laurie suggests > bluegrass gnatcatcher, or one of the little flycatchers,willow or alder. > My one glimpse could have been a junco, but it really was just a glimpse. > > The song has been very consistent all three days I heard it - a high > trill, then a trill about a major third higher. That’s what it does! > > It’s in a smallish grove/hedgerow between two fields, with a larger grove > acrosss the road. It sings from a place I can’t spot, except for the one > time I saw it, when it was singing from the top of a dead tree at the side > of the road. Some of the time it was in walnut trees. > > On Jun 8, 2019, at 3:44 PM, Sandy Podulka <[email protected]> wrote: > > A bit puzzling. The song trill seems to have two parts? A lower part and > then a higher part? It is not a typical song of any birds around here. > But, perhaps it is an odd Junco song. Could it be a Dark-eyed Junco? What > is the habitat like and where is the bird singing from? Another option > might be Chipping Sparrow. > > Sandy > > At 02:14 PM 6/8/2019, you wrote: > > This bird has been on Tucker Rd. in Enfield since Friday May 31, at > least. I only got a brief look at it, on Tuesday - small and backlit - > grayish, clear pale breast, shortish tail. But the song is distinctive. > It was singing again today, but I couldn’t see it! What is it? > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/f6ejwayrd1x8sva/Tucker%20Rd%20bird%206-4-2019.m4a?dl=0 > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > > > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- asher -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
