Thanks for the help, everyone. Now that it's identified, I found it on
my CD, and was able to find some information about it.
I don't remember hearing this bird before this spring. Now there seems
to be just the one. But I hear him every morning, even inside when I'm
just starting to wake up. I am near the northern limit of this species,
but we had an unusually mild winter, so that may help explain his
appearance in my neighborhood. Oh, yes -- And my neighbor put up a bird
feeder.
I have cleaner recordings of him than what I posted, but I was amused
by the way he appeared to answer the train. In fact, the exact moment
of the train horn sounding was the first time he appeared in my
recording, which started 17 minutes earlier. I was also amazed by his
ability to compete vocally with the train and the rumble of traffic on
I-495, both within a few hundred yards. I was even more amazed when I
found out how small he is.
/ Ed
On Jun 22, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Gene Dorcas wrote:
> Carolina Wren. I have lots of them around my home. Their song is
> very loud
> for such a small bird. You may not be seeing it because its further
> away
> than it sounds like. They perch near my house and I can hear them
> inside in
> any room of the house. They also build nests pretty low to the ground.
> I've
> lived where I do now for 31 years and each year they build a nest in my
> garage on the shelf behind the paint cans. I've also seen them nest in
> my
> shrubs.
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> Gene
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> www.froggers.com
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> From:
> On Behalf Of Ed Anson
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:05 PM
> To: Nature Recordists
> Subject: [Nature Recordists] Help needed with bird ID
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> I have been hearing this bird in my neighborhood for some time now, but
> I haven't been able to identify it. Whenever I hear it, it's completely
> hidden by the trees, so I have no idea what it looks like.
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> I have posted a brief clip from a recording at
> http://home. <http://home.comcast.net/~edanson/DawnChorus.mp3>
> comcast.net/~edanson/DawnChorus.mp3
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> This is very early in the dawn chorus, in my suburban neighborhood
> about twenty miles north of Boston, four minutes or so past the start
> of twilight. Very little is heard, until the call of the locomotis
> commuterensis is answered by my mystery bird. He calls a few times and
> then remains silent for awhile.
>
> This call is in none of my identification CDs, but I bet someone in
> this group will recognize him immediately.
>
> Ed
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> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause
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