Hi everyone, It's a bit strange, but not unprecedented: I heard a LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH singing for about 5 minutes in a low area of vernal pools in Sapsucker Woods, on the east side of Sapsucker Woods Road. While I first heard the bird from the Woodleton boardwalk, I tracked the sound to somewhere northwest of the Goldsworthy "pinecone". I never saw the bird, but the loud, clear song was consistently what I associate with Louisiana Waterthrushes: an initial two longer whistling notes that each dropped in pitch, followed by a jumble of shorter, rounded (i.e. not sharp, staccato) notes. If memory serves me correctly, the last time that there was a Louisiana Waterthrush in this general area, a few years ago, it remained for more than one day, singing frequently, before disappearing.
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