Thanks to those who responded! The verdict is a Hermit Thrush! Beautiful song! I think I had not considered it before because I observed it singing from tall tree tops. Also I had not realized how much smaller and more slender than other thrushes.
Ron Bolton Berthoud On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:38:29 PM UTC-6, ronbco wrote: > > sorry to clutter cobirds with an id request of a CA siting...but I am > stuck...and I've tried whatbird and xeno-canto. > See the name of one of our local experts with postings of audio recordings > (you know who you are Ted...) I am going to reach out to this group. > > place: sierra nevada mtns > location heard: 9k-11k ft...heard it many times on a 40 mile backpack trip > habitat: trees, perched on top of tall evergreens to sing > visual description: fairly non-descript brown/grey/white, > warbler/townsends solitaire size, seemed a close match to warbling vireo in > coloring, the tail seemed fairly short > general description of song: melodic, one song was 8 notes in about 4s > (fairly slow), then repeated with a slight modulation, the ending notes of > the song sounded like woodwind or chimes (very pleasing), the last 6 notes > (faster than the firstt 2) were in a sequence of 2 notes close in pitch > > so in short, one of the most pleasant songs, from an obviously common, > average-sized, perching bird in the Sierra Mtns > > tx > Ron Bolton > Berthoud > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/d424de2a-525e-40cb-b631-2f7c11c0ee5c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
