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Re: UK Bird ID ?

Subject: Re: UK Bird ID ?
From: "David Harris" g8ina
Date: Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:38 am (PDT)
--- In  Geoff Sample <> wrote:
>
> A bit of a tester, that - there are 3 different species in there
> (apart from the cluck).
>
> Robin doing the fast repeated 'tic's Dunnock doing monosyllabic
> whistled 'too's (lower pitched than the Coal Tit)
> Coal Tit doing the 'wee-teuy's and a single 'wee' at one point.
> Makes a change to have a UK ID question.
> Geoff.

Just a brief 2nd follow up on Geoff's comments. I have now examined
the various recordings available online and on my reference CDs of
dunnocks and coal tits, plus one or two more of my own recordings of
confirmed *visible* dunnocks and coat tits, and agree with Geoff. I do
find it astonishing though, that these two birds could sing in duet so
to speak, but the sonograms do match much more closely to dunnock with
coal tit than I first thought!

So, with the robin ticking away at the beginning, and the duet later,
I'm still trying to figure out what made the single cluck right at the
start !

My grasshopper warbler has also turned out to be that same d*mn robin
!!! I never knew robins could chirp so rapidly :-)

Thanks again,








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