For a couple of weeks I have been listening to what looks like a=
dead
ringer for a field sparrow sing a song that sounds like nothing
attributed to this species in all of my books and CD sets.
It sounds like, roughly:
chu-WEE chu-WEE chu-WEE chu-WEE
chu-WEE chu-WEE chu-WEE chu-WEE
He usually repeats the "chu-WEE" unit a total of eight times in a=
set, and he's very loud and persistent. This is the ONLY song I=
ever
hear him sing--he has never done the usual field sparrow=
"ping-pong
ball" effect since I've been watching him.
I am open to the possibility that I have misidentified him, but=
he is
a dead ringer for a field sparrow, as I said.
He sings every day at Rakes Mill Pond, mile 162.5, on the Blue=
Ridge
Parkway, near the upper end of the little wetlands where James=
Lane
crosses the Parkway, in case anybody else wants to see/hear him.
Is this a normal song for a fisp? Or might he have learned the
"wrong" song as a youngster? Or what? It's a real mystery to=
me.
Seth Williamson
Floyd, VA
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