Well, if I don't hear or see one of these on the X-mas bird count saturday, I can at least count it since its thursday today.
If anyone wants to take a stab at the answer, feel free
Labels: CBC, id challenge, identification, songs
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15 Comments:
Black-headed Grosbeak?
One of my favorites. I won't lay out the answer so others can take a guess, but I will give a clue--it's a member of the family Fringillidae and is fitting that it was singing from a conifer.
I woke up at 3am last night, checked my email, saw and listened to this post and then proceeded to have a dream about these birds. Looking forward to a great weekend of Christmas Bird Counts.
Good luck on your count. I hope you get one on the day - I'm sure we won't here!
@Mark: Yeah yeah, keep rubbing it in--I would take the birds of San Blas over the birds of Norhtern Utah in mid December any day.
I think this may be trickier than I thought...I'll admit, its not the usual song they give on the breeding grounds.
I don't know much and am just taking a stab here, but I agree with Bryce...some kind of Grosbeak? The song sounds vaguely Robin-like to me.
Pine Grosbeak?
I retract my earlier comment and clue. I am wrong about the ID and suggest looking away from the finches.
I retract my earlier comment about my bird-dream! The Pine Grosbeak I saw was lying to me.
Okay, I'm going to come out of left field and say Spotted Towhee. It's not their typical mating song, but I've heard one sing like this in the Fall. It totally tricked me. I thought I was listening to a Grosbeak and then when it came out of the brush I had to laugh.
Goll...could be a Townsend's Solitaire, too. Tricky.
Stephanie came up with it...Solitaire, fun quiz and thanks for the participation. I love the blog.
Often, birds sing a bit different song in winter. Another thing to note, as I was studying songbirds in a forested swamp back East in 1993, I realized that male Redstarts in their first year of adulthood (Yellowstarts as many call them) always had a distinctly different song than the older males.
Sweet! Only took three tries haha.
Third times a charm....
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