Although I'm not intimately familiar with bird sounds of the pacific
northwest, I also never underestimate the variability of towhee
vocalisations. Those introductory notes are unusual, especially given the
long pause before the trill on the last couple of songs. That said however,
the trill sounds like rather classic towhee so my vote is for an odd spotte=
d
towhee. Can't say that I've ever heard one just like it though.
Mark Phinney
on 7/6/03 10:48 PM, Martyn Stewart at wrote:
OK, I thought I would step in between Walt with his mystery and give you
one of mine, but maybe not as exciting!
I need some help too with this one, it was about 4:30am this morning and
these calls were coming from the undergrowth in a forest in Redmond, WA.
Certainly the habit was one of a Towhee, but the Cha, Cha, Cha, before
the ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ calls were some that I haven't heard before! Any
clues?
The Trill is that of a Junco with the vocal strength of a Steller, so it
is too loud for a Junco and uncommon behavior for a Steller, so I wipe
those out.
Get your thinking caps on, anyone have a Towhee call like this?
http://www.naturesound.org/Sound%20Files/Mystery/MysteryBird.mp3
Or at
http://www.naturesound.org/Workshop.htm
Martyn
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