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!
Several people have written to suggest I heard a Pine Siskin, and I
listened to all four recordings on the Macaulay Library, and none match.
What I heard matches Northern Parula (first place) and Pine Warbler (second
place)I"ll try to record on my phone next time.
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 3:19
I know it's early for a parula. Have there been any reports? But I think I
heard a parula (FOY) calling from up high In a pine tree on the west side of
the high school close to the creek today about 10AM. There were two sounds.
First one was a pulsing cricket or cicada-like sound, second one a
