Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:42:30 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Chris Starling Subject: Re: Can't identify Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed June, The White-throated's "Trip-el-let" is more crypticly melodic and haunting. Where as the Carolina Wren's "Trip-el-let" is more In you face and stacatto with forte... -Chris >From: June Tveekrem >Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding >To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM >Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Can't identify >Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:15:38 -0500 > >Yes, Carolina Wren is a good possibility. Also consider White-throated >Sparrow. In musical notation, the song sounds like: Do Laaaaa, >tri-pe-let, tri-pe-let, tri-pe-let (with the trip-pe-lets also starting >on La and the middle note slightly lower.) Pitches vary somewhat from >individual bird to bird, and since there was more than one bird >singing, it would be possible to hear something like tri-pe-let, >tri-pe-let, tri-pe-let, La. > >June Tveekrem >Columbia, Howard County, MD >tweekiebird@toadmail.com > > > > How about Carolina Wren? > > > > Ed Boyd > > Westminster, MD > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Roger & Leslie Torres" >To: >Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:48 PM >Subject: [MDOSPREY] Can't identify > > >There were a couple of birds calling and answering that I spent about >an hour and a half on eNature.com trying to identify. As new as I am >to birding, I'm even newer at identifying bird calls and songs, so >forgive me! Hopefully some of you who can help me out there are >musicians, because that's the only context I can put it in. What I >heard was like tri-pe-let, tri-pe-let, tri-pe-let, cheep" with the >triplet going from high >to low, and the cheep being higher. It was repeated many times back >and forth. I'd recognize it if I heard it. Can anyone out there narrow >it down and maybe give me another website that I can check for calls? > >Thanks in advance! >Leslie >Keedysville, MD > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= _________________________________________________________________ Get reliable access on MSN 9 Dial-up. 3 months for the price of 1! (Limited-time offer) http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================