Thanks to all who wrote trying to help me solve this mystery and to Dave Nutter who went out this morning to help me identify one of the two calls. We walked on both sides of the creek south of Ithaca High, and it was loaded with birds! The monotonic warble call was indeed a Dark-eyed Junco!
http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/169037 The zipper-like call, which we did not hear today, was suggested by Asher to possibly be a Tufted Titmouse if it had a sound like a plastic comb being pulled along a hard edge. I could not find a Tufted Titmouse recording that matched in the Macauly Library. I could not go through all 100 Pine Siskin calls in the library, but the few I went through were not what I think I heard. Learning to bird by ear is hard work! -- 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/ --
