Hi Martyn (& others)
I posted a very brief sample of the hermit thrush and siskin calls on the
group site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/files/
Not sure whether you can copy these to your contact who was wondering about
call id, but it might help solve one of the mysteries.
I get this sort of thing a lot....description of a bird or a sound and
someone trying to relay it to determine an ID....I'm the first to admit that
I'm terrible at interpreting someone else's description...it never seems to
be quite the way I'd describe it!
Mark Phinney
on 4/16/04 2:37 PM, Martyn Stewart at wrote:
> Thanks Mark, it is so hard to ID a sound when you do not hear it!!!
> I believe the first sound is that of A Pine Siskin, the second I have no
> clue!! I think a Pine siskin because we have the WEEEEEEEEEEE calls here and
> lots of birds in the canopy, the second bird is anyone's guess, I do have a
> Hermit thrush song & call, I'm not so sure, I wish these people would spend
> a bit more time with binoculars and get a more positive ID, i.e., coloration
> etc...
>
> Martyn :)
>
> Martyn Stewart
> Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
> http://www.naturesound.org
> N47.65543 W121.98428
> Redmond. Washington. USA
> Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
>
> The Spring is cum
> The grass is riz
> I wonder where the birdies is?
>
> The birdies on the wing!
> Nah, that's absoid
> D' wing is on d' boid!
> .........................
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M, J, & V Phinney
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 7:07 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Bird ID Wanted
>
> #1 sounds like it might be the 'rreeeee' call of a hermit thrush. If I get
> the time I can post a sample later on.
>
> Not sure about #2......ruby crowned kinglet is a possibility, but without
> hearing it.....well, you know...
>
>
> Mark Phinney
>
>
>
> on 4/15/04 9:01 PM, Martyn Stewart at wrote:
>
>> A lady writes this to me....
>>
>> Here is a sound that maybe the birders on this group may be able to
>> identify?
>>
>>
>> <I've heard a couple of unfamiliar calls in my ramblings through Seward
> Park
>> the last week or so. Hoping you might be able to help me here.
>>
>> 1. A whining adolescent "whyyyy?" similar to the Spotted Towhee, but
> higher
>> in pitch and lighter in overall quality, coming from the mid canopy. I can
>> see smallish silhouettes flitting around up there, but haven't yet gotten
> a
>> good look.
>>
>> 2. "weeeep? pollyputthekettleon?" high and thin, coming from the mid to
>> upper canopy. The "pollyputhekettleon" starts high, drops in pitch through
>> "llyputthekettle" and rises in inflection on "on". On this one I've not
> even
>> seen movement>
>>
>>
>> This is Washington State, outside Seattle in a park setting surrounded by
>> Lake Washington.....
>>
>> Martyn
>>
>>
>>
>> Martyn Stewart
>> Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
>> http://www.naturesound.org
>> N47.65543 W121.98428
>> Redmond. Washington. USA
>> Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
>>
>> The Spring is cum
>> The grass is riz
>> I wonder where the birdies is?
>>
>> The birdies on the wing!
>> Nah, that's absoid
>> D' wing is on d' boid!
>> .........................
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> "Microphones are not ears,
>> Loudspeakers are not birds,
>> A listening room is not nature."
>> Klas Strandberg
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>>
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>>
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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