[texbirds] Re: RFI Hooded Warbler song
- From: Susan Schaezler <warblerwoods@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx" <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 15:16:46 -0500
We had a gorgeous Hooded the end of August several years ago, with picture.
Susan Schaezler
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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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