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RE: Bird ID Wanted

Subject: RE: Bird ID Wanted
From: "Martyn Stewart" <>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:16:46 -0700
<yeah But what if you can't see too well, Martyn?>

Oooooooooooooooooppppppppppppppppppss!
Big size 9's in there!!

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: Wild Sanctuary  
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 2:43 PM
To: 
Subject: RE: [Nature Recordists] Bird ID Wanted

>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...


Bernie

>
>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!
>>  .........................
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  "Microphones are not ears,
>>  Loudspeakers are not birds,
>>  A listening room is not nature."
>>  Klas Strandberg
>>  Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>


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P. O. Box 536
Glen Ellen, California  95442-0536
Tel: (707) 996-6677
Fax: (707) 996-0280
http://www.wildsanctuary.com



"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg 
Yahoo! Groups Links



 




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