As pointed out by several people, I meant of course Orange-Crowned Warbler. That's what happens when trying to type on your phone while walking down the recway, I guess. (Hard to blame auto-correct for this one, though.)
Meanwhile, it's interesting that the OCWA did not fire off an ebird alert as I would've expected. Does that feel like something that needs fixing? (In contrast, the ebird alerts about red-eyed vireos, while a little noisy, are at least understandable for seasonality reasons.) Suan On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:11 AM Suan Yong <suan.y...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Like yesterday hawthorn orchard was again relatively quiet today, nashville > warblers continuing to be the dominant singer, with a good number of white > crowned sparrows singing and foraging in the freshly and messily mown grass, > joining a seemingly diminishing number of white throated sparrows. > > Then Ken Kemphues chased me down to tell me that he'd just seen an > orange-crowned sparrow after following an unfamiliar trill, and together we > were able to relocate it. (So FOY credit goes to him.) The trill fits in the > junco-chipping range, but doesn't stay in the same pitch like those songs, > varying and slowly descending towards the end. At times it seemed to have an > edge, and was somewhat reminiscent of a female cowbird's chatter. > > Suan > _____________________ > Composed by thumb and autocorrect. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
