[NatureNS] Mystery birdsong

Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:52:19 -0400
From: Eleanor Lindsay <kelindsay@eastlink.ca>
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My thanks (and apologies for the delay in replying, due to friends 
visiting) to all who offered suggestions about my mystery birdsong.

The winter wren was one of the first possibilities I had already checked 
with my Peterson disc, but its song was quite different. Unfortunately I 
don't have a means of recording sounds, but while I am very familiar 
with the usual vocalisations of goldfinch, song and white throat 
sparrows, Andy Horn's 'whispered songs of the song sparrow' is an 
intriguing possibility - I do have some around now, as I do every year, 
(though I have never registered this particular  song before) and I may 
well have seen one in the vicinity of the 'mystery' song and dismissed 
it as not being the source.

So for the time being I'll go with Andy's 'whispered songs'. The time of 
year is right, I have song sparrows around and the 'whispering' captures 
the essence of what I was hearing.....

Eleanor Lindsay



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