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Index of Subjects 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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