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Re: unknown song - Vesper Sparrow?

Subject: Re: unknown song - Vesper Sparrow?
From: "M, J, & V Phinney" <>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:34:18 -0700
Agreed - this is definitely a winter wren


Mark Phinney


on 6/28/04 5:39 PM, Greg Kunkel at  wrote:

> 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
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> Greg Kunkel
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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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