Thanks for your input - great ! And hats off to Martyn for thinking
of an Iberian chiffchaff from miles away, but any chiffchaff or other
Phylloscopus which found itself where I was in January would be
destined for an early grave !
I think the prize has to go to Rombout, I listened back through some
of my archived Marsh Tits and found one which matches well, see
my "Marsh Tit 060730" from last July which I just posted in the files
area. The first two calls are the noises we are familiar with from
Marsh Tits, and about 9.5s in switches to my "mystery" call - same
shape spectrogram etc. Seems to be not well noted for this bird but
clearly used (and not plastic since I had previously got it on 30
July). Seems to match with fig IV, page 155, Vol VII of Birds of W
Palearctic if you have that tome. And Marsh Tits live in mixed and
pine forests here too - not marshes !
Nice discusion and conclusion, thanks a lot.
Chris
--- In Geoff Sample <>
wrote:
>
> Hi Chris
>
> I'd put my money on a Phylloscopus warbler. Martyn could be right
> with iberian chiffchaff; or it could be bonelli's warbler or wood
> warbler, just starting to sing ie plastic song. As you say, it's
very
> early though. Could there be one up there in january? Was it in a
> pine wood?
>
> Geoff.
>
>
> > 5a. European Mystery
> > Posted by: "Chris Hails" chrishails50
> > Date: Sat Mar 3, 2007 9:21 am ((PST))
> >
> > I have just loaded [unknown 1]070127.mp3 into the files area. Can
> > anyone help me put a name to it ? Recorded in the French Jura at
about
> > 500m asl, in about 50cm of snow in January. Sounds like a warbler
but
> > wrong time of year. I feel a bit stupid asking as it seems quite
> > straightforward (please don't tell me its a Great Tit fooling
> > around !).
> >
> > Chris
>
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