Marty
I record where I can mate, I have recorded at Cougar mountain and Tiger
Mountain, these are great places In the =1B$B!H=1B(Bwee small hours=1B$B!I=
=1B(B Marymoor
park and State Park are good spots too, but you have to get up before
the people noises, those parks are sandwiched between the 520 & I-90 so
a lot of pollution is involved.
I recorded last Sunday at Redmond Reservoir, I generally scout around to
see possible sites and check them out, IE: tree types, density etc. I
use a terrific piece of software called =1B$B!H=1B(BEarthViewer 3D NVIDIA=
=1B$B!I=1B(B I can
nail a point and zoom down from space to see how vast the area is and
what type of vegetation there is plus the density.
< This gives me an idea: A few of my warbler recordings from NW
Washington I
would love to have verified as to species and typicality (is this a
word?)
- sometimes what you watch on the hemlock branch, eating bugs in the
sunlight might not be what the recorder records . . . perhaps I'll post
a
few, in the next few days and ask for help from you, Mark, Doug and
anyone
else with western warbler expertise.>
This would be great, I look forward to helping ID them :-)
Martyn
-----Original Message-----
From: Marty Michener
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 6:40 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Bird ID Needed
At 10:48 PM 7/6/2003 -0700, Martyn Stewart 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
Hello Mates:
In my limited recordings in the Redmond area, I don't think I ever heard
a
Towhee quite like that. But it is my guess you' have got the correct
species; the ones I recorded were certainly very variable in pattern,
from
one bird to the next. You have a good recording, very clear. Can you
tell
me what is the lower pitched bird in the bg?
The other species that kept fooling me in Redmond was, when I could see
them, Bewick's Wren, where I could not hear the high pitched intro for
many
of their songs, I sometimes thought THEY were towhees. To my upper-deaf
ears, they sounded more like my familiar Eastern Towhees (thank god AOU
re-split the two species again!). But I am pretty sure your mystery
bird
is NOT one of these.
Where, I am curious, in Redmond do you record, it is so built-up? Have
you
tried Marymoore Park or Discovery Point Park out west on the other side
of
Queen Anne? I was always frustrated by morning "opening times" to get
recording early enough, but found ways around the closed gates by
parking
elsewhere and then just walking further. There were also some good
recordings I made in Cougar Park in Issaquah, to the south side of
Seattle.
BTW a disavowal: My departed reasons for visiting the area had nothing
to
do with my use of Microsoft products, but rather to visit my
now-deceased
parents in law. ;^(
This gives me an idea: A few of my warbler recordings from NW Washington
I
would love to have verified as to species and typicality (is this a
word?)
- sometimes what you watch on the hemlock branch, eating bugs in the
sunlight might not be what the recorder records . . . perhaps I'll post
a
few, in the next few days and ask for help from you, Mark, Doug and
anyone
else with western warbler expertise.
Total regards,
Marty Michener
MIST Software Associates PO Box 269, Hollis, NH 03049
EnjoyBirds.com - Software that migrates with you.
http://www.EnjoyBirds.com
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