Andrew et al.,
I am by no means the expert here, and hopefully Andrew Farnsworth will chime in
with any comments or suggestions, but basically all I do is listen in real time
and count all the birds I can hear and identify. I don’t have a recording
set-up at present. I’m fairly confident with m
Geoff et al,
To my ear, this sounds like the buzzy variation of Rose-breasted Grosbeak that
is often given in fall (perhaps by immatures?). It has more of a liquid
quality, and maybe a bit more of a rising inflection than is typical of
Dickcissel. There are good examples of this call on the Eva
Just a quick note. I'd concur that this is likely a Dickcissel. It falls in the
right frequency bounds for Dickcissel. It seems to have a few more "p's" in
that "fpppt" call than we might expect for Dickcissel. It's quality is not one
of musicality, which we might expect for a call with fully mo
Ken (and Chris*),
I have a different interpretation of the ebird NFC rules/guideliness than
the Montgomery county (Pennsylvania) ebird compiler for listening live
(cc'd here).
http://help.ebird.org/customer/portal/articles/1010492.
It might be easier to just see an example of how you are logging
Thought some on NFC-L might appreciate Andrew Spencer's blog, as mentioned in a
post to Cayugabirds-L by Bob McGuire. The specific blog archive to which Bob
references below is here: http://earbirding.com/blog/archives/4800
Good Night Listening!
Sincerely,
Chris T-H (Sitting in the DTW airport
