A male cardinal was just singing up a storm in my yard too, making washing the dinner dishes a lot more pleasurable! Bet he and his mate are nesting again too, but I wonder at what stage they are to stimulate this resurgence of song - just starting a new clutch? Or are there recent fledglings that he's singing for? ie. is the singing because they're at the beginning or the end of the nesting cycle? Maybe both, I suppose.
Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com Now on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography/104356136271727 ________________________________________ From: bounce-37804215-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-37804215-5851...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Meena Haribal [m...@cornell.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 8:41 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Cardinal Singing non stop for three hours Hello all, I have been sitting in front of computer for last three hours and a Cardinal has been singing all the time non-stop! Initially he was doing mostly kiddokiddo talk to me talk to me for nearly one hour. I got bored of his song told him to stop. Then recently just before dusk he has changed his tunes. Some times ago eh was doing phewphewphew phew or also you can say thew thew thew (th as harsh t not in like the, in India it is differentiated by two letters). Now he is doing regular most commonly hear cardinal song. Wow he has some energy! I am wondering what is making him so much. Has he started third nesting? Or he is just jubilant today! He is still going on! Now he is doing kuchi khuchi kuchi ..... Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
