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Re: New Dawn Mysteries

Subject: Re: New Dawn Mysteries
From: "Kevin Colver" kjcolver
Date: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:30 am ((PDT))
Hi John,
Sure could be Brewer's Sparrow doing the long series of variable trills
but I also wonder if you were close enough to some conifers and aspen to
have recorded a bird in a tree?  If so, I would have first thought of
White-winged Crossbill.  I know they're not supposed to be very far
south but I recorded one sounding just like this in Wyoming once.
Conventional wisdom was that they weren't there but mine was there and
very vocal.
Kevin J Colver





-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of M, J, & V Phinney
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] New Dawn Mysteries


A quick listen yielded white-crowned sparrow, wilson's snipe, some
short,
buzzy trills that sound like fledglings of some sort, but I believe your
main subject is a Brewer's Sparrow. Have a listen to some reference
songs
and see what you think.

Mark Phinney

on 7/15/07 9:22 PM, John Hartog at hartogj_1999@
<hartogj_1999%40yahoo.com> yahoo.com wrote:

Fellow recordists,

On my drive back up to Oregon from the Nature Sound Society workshop,
I camped in the Warner Mountains in Modoc County, California. Here is
a highlight from a recording of mine of a lively dawn chorus over a
wet meadow surrounded by desert sage in the foreground and behind; a
pine forest to the distant center and right; and a large grove of
aspen distant center and left. (41sec, 645kb)

http://www.rockscal
<http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-070625-0433_dismal-swamp.mp3>
lop.org/ear/jh-070625-0433_dismal-swamp.mp3

I mostly want to know what makes the long series of buzzy expressions
(near left and also a bit out and right)? Are those blackbirds of some
sort? Opinions regarding IDs for any of the species in this recording
will be greatly appreciated.

Someone at one of the NSS field trips pointed out to me what a Snipe
sounds like, and I can hear snipes in this recording: it's those
swirly-woops. The background is very busy with what sounds like a
whole lot of robins.

John Hartog









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