Hi again everyone,
I just realized that my description of the warbler's location was not quite correct. When I wrote about turning left at the T-intersection this was correct. However, by turning left you would remain on the trail "Yellow 1". It is only if you incorrectly turned right that you would be on trail "Yellow 6". At least the notes that I scribbled for myself this morning knew what was happening, even if my brain didn't... Wesley ________________________________ From: bounce-115597985-3494...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-115597985-3494...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Wesley M. Hochachka <w...@cornell.edu> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 20:52 To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] likely Golden-winged/Brewster's Warbler on Hammond Hill this morning Hi everyone, Apologies for my late posting, but I only now had a chance to scan through a large number of recordings of singing warblers, and concluded that there was either a Golden-winged or Brewster's Warbler on Hammond Hill this morning. The bird was heard by me, Scott Haber, and Brad Walker on the trail labelled "Yellow 6". If you travel the trail across the road from the Hammond Hill Rd parking lot in the state forest, you will be on the "Yellow 1" trail. At a point just above the old blow-down area that has both Mourning and Canada Warblers (putting on good performances this morning!), the trail comes to a T-intersection, and if you turn left at the T (onto the "Yellow 6" trail) and travel between 50 and 100m you will come to a more open area before the conifer forest, which looks like an old apple orchard that has been overgrown for many years. We heard, but were not able to see, a bird that was singing persistently for at least 10 minutes, giving a 2-note song that sounds like an abridged version of one of the typical Golden-winged Warbler songs: a longer buzz, followed by multiple shorter notes at a slightly lower pitch for the typical song. The bird in question consistently sang only the first long buzz note and then a single shorter note. I found a couple of examples on xeno-canto that display this variant: http://www.xeno-canto.org/103587 http://www.xeno-canto.org/49544 However, after listening to every Golden-winged Warbler recording on xeno-canto, I think that anything that a pure Golden-winged Warbler can sing can also be sung by a Brewster's Warbler (there were a few recordings of Brewster's Warbler hybrids listed with the Golden-winged Warblers. So, I think that there's at least 50% of a Golden-winged Warbler (possibly less if you go by mitochondrial DNA) up on Hammond Hill. If anyone is in the area, it might be useful to have a look and listen in the general area that I described. Wesley Hochachka -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
