I was at Lindsay Parsons yesterday ~1-3pm, and the first loud voice I heard was one in a tree by the first field, which I could neither identify nor locate visually until, after some 10 minutes of repeating the same song, it flitted away across the field. I have a lousy iPhone-recording here:
http://www.suan-yong.com/sound/lindsay-parsons-mystery.wav Can someone help with the ID? My fleeting glimpse of it flitting away suggested something sparrow-like. Later, after another exasperating failure to visually locate a really loud field sparrow that should've been "right there" -- during which a very loud yellow-billed cuckoo also vocalized -- I was eventually rewarded by a fantastic view of the Y.B. cuckoo, preening then calling again for good measure before disappearing into the woods. Other highlights include visually tracking down a young redstart (not very red, but very start-ling voice), a good number of chestnut-sided warblers, and reasonably-close prairie warbler. Suan P.S. The evening found me at Stewart Park watching a crow chasing a kingfisher. The kingfisher would continually dive and fly off in the opposite direction -- apparently a sudden-turn maneuver that gives it some advantage over the crow which seemed otherwise a faster flyer. Pre-S. The morning found me driving down Michigan Hollow Road, first at a spot with a singing black-and-white warbler which chased off two blackburnians invading its tree, and a breathtaking view of a distant scarlet tanager perched atop the canopy; then further down the road an enounter with Meena with a recording dish, puzzling out what she thought was probably the secondary song of chestnut-sided warblers. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
