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Re: New Dawn Mysteries

Subject: Re: New Dawn Mysteries
From: "John Hartog" hartogj
Date: Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:27 pm ((PDT))
Thanks for that idea Kevin.
I find it amazing both birds have songs so similar. There was a stand
of trees behind and to the left of the mics about fifty feet. However,
based on the recordings I found on the web the sparrow still seems a
better fit than the crossbill.

John Hartog


--- In  "Kevin Colver" <>
wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of M, J, & V Phinney
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:46 AM
> To: 
> 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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