Hello, Birders.

I pressed SEND too soon.

I meant to comment on the Eastern Warbling-Vireo I reported from Teller Farms - 
White Rocks, Boulder County, earlier this morning, Thursday, May 24th. I think 
it is best to refer to such birds not as "Eastern Warbling-Vireos" but rather 
as "birds that sound like Eastern Warbling-Vireos." For one thing, our ears 
(and hearts?) can deceive us: We hear one thing, and we think one thing; but 
then we get a danged sound recording, and the spectrogram tells us another!

And there's something else, something more insidious. How do we know it's not 
"really" a Western Warbling-Vireo that just happens to be singing an Eastern 
Warbling-Vireo's song?

The mighty Bill Maynard raises this general point in an ongoing discussion over 
at CFO's Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/129995222037/

Ted Floyd
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Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado                                       

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