[texbirds] Re: RFI Hooded Warbler song
- From: Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Steve Gast <segast23@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 20:48:06 -0500
I totally give up..B
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Brush Freeman
503-551-5150 Cell
http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Steve Gast <segast23@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hoodeds definitely sing during migration before reaching their breeding
> sites. HAS's Edith L Moore sanctuary had several this spring and one
> persistent fellow that sang for a week near the parking lot.
>
> Steve Gast
> Houston TX
>
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I have a quite a few singing spring migrant males even here just 15
> > miles away from where they breed, the westernmost point I know of in
> North
> > America (?).. Nearly always one-two day wonders or less. I get plenty
> of
> > migrants when I am in Port O'Connor on the coast which are sometime
> > abundant... Anyone that can provide firm evidence of HOWAs breeding west
> > away from the known area(s), roughly Bastrop Co., would be doing the
> Texas
> > record a favor. As mentioned eariler they as breeders are associated with
> > hardwood mixed piney woods.
> > Brush
> >
> > **********************************************************************
> > Brush Freeman
> > 503-551-5150 Cell
> > http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
> > Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Susan Schaezler <warblerwoods@xxxxxxxxx
> >wrote:
> >
> >> We had a gorgeous Hooded the end of August several years ago, with
> picture.
> >>
> >> Susan Schaezler
> >> WarblerWoods.org
> >> 501(c)(3) Cibolo/Schertz
> >> Lone Star Land Steward Winner 2011. GCBO Site Partner
> >> Life member TOS, SAAS, TAS
> >>
> >> On Sep 4, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sean...Not to put you on the spot, but if you had a singing Hooded at
> >> Lost
> >>> Maples, you almost 100% had a La. Waterthrush as neither Hoodeds or
> >>> Swainson's breed anywhere close to you...Indeed as far as I know the
> >> Lost
> >>> Pines of bastrop Co. is the western most known breeding area in North
> >>> America...They require a pine component. Just Say. Swainson's do
> breed
> >> in
> >>> a few places to the south, IE Aransas NWR in very localized places.
> >>> **********************************************************************
> >>> Brush Freeman
> >>> 503-551-5150 Cell
> >>> http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
> >>> Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Sean Paul Kelley <spkelley@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> All of my encounters with Hooded Warblers have been execrable
> >> experiences.
> >>>> I chased one through the Ozarks two summers ago. Hideous little
> wretch,
> >>>> male signing so loud and clear it was amazing any other bird could be
> >> heard
> >>>> in the forest.
> >>>>
> >>>> Before that there was one singing his heart out one spring at Lost
> >> Maples
> >>>> State Park. I looked for him for a full hour up in a big oak tree--the
> >> only
> >>>> tree around and still could not see him.
> >>>>
> >>>> But I heard him.
> >>>>
> >>>> And then finally, I saw my first this spring during the big fallout at
> >>>> Goose Island State Park, except it was a lady Hooded. Still, a lady
> >> counts.
> >>>>
> >>>> Damned birds.
> >>>>
> >>>> Still love 'em.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I would be grateful if Darrel V. (or others ) could comment on these
> >>>>> 3...He
> >>>>> likely has more skin into these as western range edge breeders. I
> had
> >>>>> virtually no encounters this season with them as I was away.
> >>>>> Brush
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Brush Freeman <
> brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Sean: I am sure you heard something but not sure exactly what. I
> >> can
> >>>>>>> say this from my own experience...Where La. Waterthrushes, Hoodeds,
> >> and
> >>>>>>> even Swainson's breed in close proximity, the ability for them to
> >> sound
> >>>>>>> similar to each other or blend into a back ground of mixed song is
> >>>>>>> amazing...I can not tell you how many times I have stood in the
> woods
> >>>>>>> trying to ID which I was hearing during breeding season where
> these 3
> >>>>> are
> >>>>>>> present, to this day. Perhaps its my lame ear but I suspect this
> is a
> >>>>>>> common problem with heard onlys of these southern breeders. It is
> >>>>> also
> >>>>>>> late to hear La Waterthrushes or Hoodeds singing, though I am sure
> >>>>> there
> >>>>>>> are exceptions. A mocker doing imitating a Hooded is something I
> >> guess
> >>>>> I am
> >>>>>>> still waiting to hear. All of the above breed here in the Lost
> >> Pines.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >> **********************************************************************
> >>>>>>> Brush Freeman
> >>>>>>> 503-551-5150 Cell
> >>>>>>> http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
> >>>>>>> Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Sean Paul Kelley <
> spkelley@xxxxxxxxx
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Why would a Hooded Warbler be singing in San Antonio on the
> morning
> >> of
> >>>>>>>> September 4th? (And I know, very, very well and excruciatingly
> what
> >> a
> >>>>>>>> Hooded Warbler song sounds like.) Or was I punked by a Mockingbird
> >>>>> doing
> >>>>>>>> a
> >>>>>>>> very, very good imitation of someone he or she had recently seen?
> >>>>>>>> Any thoughts?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Sean Paul Kelley
> >>>>>>>> Central San Antonio
> >>>>>>>>
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