Va Birders: Help!
This is the first migratory season that I have had a chance to do any
birding by ear--maybe it is just that I am home later in the morning to
actually "hear" birds before I go off to the job. Yesterday I heard a call
several times that I have been unable to identify through the mnemonics in
the guides (various) nor the CD. I am always hoping for new yard birds so I
always try to make new calls into warblers--last one was the White-crowned
Sparrow who finally sat right out on a branch in front of me and sang his
buzzy little trill which I had never heard before.
The "mystery" call is a series of five to eight "buzzy" notes with a very
small acceleration and a very short rise in pitch. It is not the "trilly,"
high-pitched, and fast call of a bird such as the Prairie or N. Parula. It
is more of a "buzzzz, buzzzz, buzzz, buzzz, buzz" in a middle register. It
is not a "raspberry" like buzz at the end of the Black-throated Blue, but a
true "buzz." It is probably one of my local denizens singing a new song to
me, but if any one out there can help, I would surely appreciate resolving
this mystery--it is driving me crazy!
Thanks.
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