[NatureNS] Mystery birdsong

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Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 07:57:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Suzanne Borkowski <suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca>
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Hi Eleanor;

Fox Sparrows sometimes come through people's yards in the Fall.  Have you listened to their song?

Cheers;
Suzanne




--- On Sun, 11/1/09, Eleanor Lindsay <kelindsay@eastlink.ca> wrote:

> From: Eleanor Lindsay <kelindsay@eastlink.ca>
> Subject: [NatureNS] Mystery birdsong
> To: "NatureNS" <NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Received: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 9:52 AM
> 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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