I listened to the YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER for awhile this morning singing from the Sycamore grove along Pier Road, and I saw it as well to confirm. It sounded a bit different than yesterday. I don't know if that was due to the environment or proximity or the bird's enthusiasm at different times of day or something about my own mental state. Anyway it sounded more like:
tu tu tu TEE-TU TEE-TU TEE-TU TEE-TU TEE-Tu tyu
The sound is not the rich slurred notes of a Baltimore Oriole, but instead higher and thinner and thus more obviously a warbler. It varied between 4 and 7 of the TEE-TU pairs of notes. The quieter introductory and final notes were sometimes hard to hear among the many other singers in the area, but the TEE-TU notes cut through loud & clear. The ending was also a bit variable, but I never heard it give a rising final note like the birds I've heard in New Jersey.
--Dave Nutter
On May 15, 2012, at 10:53 PM, Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote:
This afternoon (15 May) I went to Pier Road beside Newman Golf Course and also across Fall Creek in Renwick Wildwood. Among other things, I hoped to refind the YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. I believe I eventually heard it, but I was not able to see it, in or near a large Sycamore in Renwick between the two paths well north of the concrete arch. While trying to find the bird I worked on memorizing the song. I wasn't perfect in that department either, but I notated it:tup tup tup TEE-DOE TEE-DOE TEE-DOE TEE-DOE TEE-DOE du duI actually forgot to count how many of the louder TEE-DOE pairs of notes there were, but the last one or two of those pairs was slightly lower in pitch than the initial few, and they seemed similar to some recordings I've heard of Yellow-throated Warbler, but I haven't heard recordings with any such introductory notes nor with such a bland tag at the end. I wonder if this description matches what other observers have heard from the Yellow-throated Warbler which has been in this area during the past week, and also whether either this description or what you heard from this individual is similar to songs from this species others have heard elsewhere Thanks.Other things I found included a female COMMON MERGANSER entering a hole in a dead tree, and a pied EUROPEAN STARLING, which I've seen before, on the Stewart Park lawn north of the suspension bridge. It is mostly normal but with several small white splotches scattered over its body and a large white patch on its upper right breast.--Dave Nutter--Cayugabirds-L List Info:Archives:Please submit your observations to eBird!--
--
Cayugabirds-L List Info:
Archives:
Please submit your observations to eBird!
--
