You could be onto something Ted.....A Big Tree Day! John Rawinski Monte Vista, CO
On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 9:35:18 PM UTC-6 Ted Floyd wrote: > LEGO is the giveaway. > > Yeah, so I was whiling away the 2 o'clock hour this hazy, partly cloudy > Wed. afternoon, Solstice Day, June 21, 2023, just south of the noisy > intersection of 30th & Valmont when I heard quite a commotion in a tall > shade tree along 30th. Hairy woodpecker, then house sparrow, then northern > flicker, then American goldfinch, then house wren, then western wood-pewee, > then lazuli bunting, then plumbeous vireo, and, through it all, a lesser > goldfinch. > > I fumbled around my backpack for my cell phone, found it, pressed the red > button, and got audio: > > https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/587098881 > > Those are the utterances of a single *lesser goldfinch!* Mockingbirds and > starlings get all the glory for their powers of mimicry (and, to be sure, > those two are indeed amazing mimics), but the lesser goldfinch is an > astounding mimic, too. Seems like that goldfinch had spent some time in the > foothills. That's why I'm calling the *Passerina* bunting flight call a > lazuli bunting; but it's at least as good a match for the flight call of a > blue grosbeak. And I'm applying the same probabilistic reasoning to the > plumbeous vireo; but after my recent experiences with a territorial > Cassin vireo <https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/582948651> up there, who > knows! > > In any event, it's amazing what we're learning by simply pressing the red > button on our phones. Or, as Nathan Pieplow put it recently: > > "*What does that mean, exactly? Heck if I know. But I do think it's > another great reason why EVERY birder's first instinct upon hearing *[ > *birds*]*—anywhere, anytime—should be to pull out the phone and hit > record.*" > > > Ted Floyd > Lafayette, Boulder Co. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/7702372c-f617-49f7-97df-012fb3023f2cn%40googlegroups.com.
