Hi Rodger,
I am no expert on birds, but I still think hermit thrush is the best
bet. If you go to the hermit thrush page on that same Cornell site,
you will hear their recording sounds very similar to mine. I don't
hear much similarity at all with their Veery recording. It seems the
hermit thrush starts each phrase with a clear single note and then the
fluttered twinkles.
-John Hartog
--- In "rchapanis"
<> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> 'Any chance that the Hermit Thrush in your Ochoco Mountains recording
> might be a Veery? Several years ago, I heard a Veery for the first
> time in eastern Washington. At first I thought it was a Hermit
> Thrush. But, the experienced birders in my group excitedly described
> it as a Veery. (To me, the Veery sounds like a Swainson's thrush--but
> in reverse--with its sounds spiraling downward instead of upward.)
>
> FYI, here's the Cornell University recording of a Veery:
>
> http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Veery.html#sound
>
> -------
> Warmly,
>
> Roger
>
> --- In "John Hartog"
> <hartogj_1999@> wrote:
> >
> > I want to thank all on this list who responded =96 your comments were
> > all kind and very helpful. I am glad to now feel fairly familiar
> with
> > at least one call of Catharus guttatus the Hermit Thrush.
> > Here is another short cut of when a Hermit thrush was somewhat
> closer
> > to the mics. (1min, 927kb)
> >
> > http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-070520_hermit-thrush.mp3
> >
> > John Hartog
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > David Barnas wrote:
> > "Speaking of touring, the Ochoco mountains recording (from John
> Hartog, I
> > think?) is nice. I biked the Trans American trail in 1996, and that
> > goes through
> > the Ochoco area and over the Ochoco pass. So I have been there. But
> at
> > that
> > time, I didn't pay attention to sounds like I do now, I loved the
> > scenery, it is
> > beautiful there! I can look at my old pics of Ochoco, and listen to
> the
> > recording ! :)"
> >
> > Volker Widmann wrote:
> > "A lovely recording! I would love to be there."
> >
> > Kevin J Colver wrote:
> > "Sounds like you've got the Hermit Thrush, Red-breasted Nuthatch,
> > Yellow-rumped Warbler, Western Tanager, Crow (species?), Dark-eyed
> > Junco, and your drummer. The drummer is a sapsucker. I'm guessing
> from
> > the rhythm that it is Williamson's Sapsucker. I recorded a female
> > Williamson's drumming in this abbreviated manner a couple of years
> ago.
> > She didn't drum as long as the male does. Most woodpeckers drum a
> > steady rhythm, the sapsuckers do the syncopation and irregularities.
> > The Red-breasted and Red-naped tend to drum rapidly at first then
> throw
> > in the variation at the end of the sequence."
> >
> > Martyn Stewart wrote:
> > "Nice recording, John as usual..
> > F.Y.I. I can hear: hermit thrush, yellow rumped warbler, red-
> breasted
> > nuthatch, chipping sparrow, common raven "Tic-toc call",great horned
> > owl, brown creeper, western tanager, dark-eyed junco. red-breasted
> > sapsucker drumming...
> > Very nice ambient..."
> >
> > Suzanne Williams wrote:
> > "Lovely morning sounds, John. The drumming does sound like a
> > woodpecker to me"
> >
> > Mark Phinney wrote:
> > Nice recording -
> > "I hear (at least): hermit thrush, yellow-rumped warbler, red-
> breasted
> > nuthatch, chipping sparrow, common raven, great horned owl, brown
> creeper,
> > western tanager, dark-eyed junco and sapsucker (species?)
> > the calls ending with a loud 'toc' are the raven - a higher pitched
> > call(possibly young) is given later. The drumming woodpecker has the
> > distinctive pattern of a sapsucker - not sure which species you have
> > there."
> >
> > John Hartog wrote:
> > "I'm assuming I hear a Hermit Thrush, and in the background a Red
> > Breasted Nuthatch, and a few other birds I'm not certain of.
> > I am interested to hear what group members have to say about the
> > "tic-tok" call. And also what woodpecker is drumming?
> > (2:04min, 1.9MB, 128kbps)
> > http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh_070520-5am_birds.mp3
> > Recorded May 20, 2007 about 5:00 am, while I was taking a 722 out
> for
> > a test drive in the Ochoco Mountains of central Oregon.
> > Recorder: SD722, 24bit/44.1, with gain setting at 50 out of 70.
> > Mics NT1-A (x2), head height, head spaced, ~20deg, with barrier
> > Edits: 44dB digital amplification, and some high shelf eq to the
> hiss.
> > Any comments or IDs will be greatly appreciated."
> >
>
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