Is this the one you are thinking is a Gray Jay.
http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-050501-9am-bird-b.mp3
I was thinking maybe it's an Osprey.
I read that Gray Jays sometimes mimic hawks, so maybe it's one
mimicking an Osprey.
-John Hartog
>
> I too would lean toward Song Sparrow, and I agree with Martyn's Wilson's
> Warbler. Aside from the Kingfisher, I can hear Pacific-slope Flycatcher
> several times and also a jay...I would have called it a gray jay,
but am not
> sure what other possibilities you have there. One of the louder and more
> frequent 'rising' songs is one I'm not familiar with...may be what
Martyn is
> calling a yellow-rumped warbler but I have no experience with
dialects from
> the coastal pacific northwest.
>
> Mark Phinney
>
> on 12/9/05 3:16 PM, John Hartog at wrote:
>
> > I'm sure this one will be ridiculously obvious to a bunch of you here,
> > but what is the main bird singing in this recording? My amateurish
> > guess would be a Bewick's Wren, or Song Sparrow.(30sec, 595kb)
> >
> > http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-050501-9am-birds.mp3
> >
> > Any other ID's are welcome; really the only one I know for certainty
> > is the Belted kingfisher rattling in the background.
> >
> > Recorded May 1st 2005 in Clatsop County, Oregon with NT1A's and
PMD670.
> >
> > John Hartog
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