At 03:41 AM 8/21/2005 +0000, Mark Fischer wrote:
>--- In Charles Bragg
>> I wish I could hear a bit more of the file too. This song is not the
>Well, it just so happens:
>
>http://aguasonic.com/Sounds/levee_bird3.mp3
>If it helps- from the glimpses I've been able to catch he's a small
>brown bird, pretty shy about being seen. Singing in Thule grass at the
>water's edge.
OK, the recording now sounds like a Marsh Wren. It *could* be a Bew=
ick's doing an imitation, but it goes on so long and consistently I doubt i=
t.
The behavior is more like a Marsh than a Bewick's. Marshes tend to =
stay low and hidden in the rushes/cattails/tules and are *hardly ever* away=
from water. Bewick's are more likely to perch high and in sight, and are *=
mostly* over dry ground.
-- Chuck
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Chuck Bragg, Pacific Palisades, CA
Membership, Newsletter, Web manager
Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society
www.smbas.org
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