Thank you all for your quick identifications of my unknown. I have
seen Winter Wrens in my backyard (Long Island) infrequently in the
winter but never heard them sing. Your kind help will allow me to
catalog another first for my collection. I only wish I was able to
see him. My wife and I spent 15 minutes scanning the evergreens but
could not find the bird.
Greg Kunkel
--- Barb Beck <> wrote:
> It is the eastern ssp of the Winter Wren. Nice recording
> Barb Beck
> Edmonton
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kunkel
> Sent: June 28, 2004 6:40 PM
> To:
> Subject: [Nature Recordists] unknown song - Vesper Sparrow?
>
> When I heard the song I thought Song Sparrow, but the song went on
> and on. I had never heard this song before but I had seen a sparrow
> at the base of the mountain that I tentatively identified as a
> Vesper
> Sparrow. Conditions were close to ideal and I made about 3 minutes
> of video and stereo sound recording.
>
> On getting home and transferring it to my computer I found that the
> left channel was the one with most clarity so I reduced the
> recording
> to mono using that channel. I also filtered out some of the low
> frequency wind in the trees noise. This is only about 10 seconds of
> this recording.
>
> In going through commercial recordings it seems to be closest to
> Vesper but different in detail. Can anybody tell me if it is a
> Vesper
> Sparrow?
>
> http://gk.akwebb.net/birds/sparrow/sparrow.html
>
> Greg Kunkel
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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