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Hi, This email is delayed about a months as I mistakenly sent it from my work email address so it was refused. This morning after shoveling (early April), high in a maple tree on our lot in Eagan, I heard a song I’ve not heard before. There were two parts, quite consistent in structure: a fairly rapid trill like a chipping sparrow or dark-eyed junco, and then dropping in pitch (about a perfect 4th to the musically inclined) for 3-5 very short, more mechanical, bursts. I looked for several minutes and once I thought I’d located it, I turned to get binocs. Of course as soon as a turned the calling stopped and the bird had left. Consulting iBird, the closest recording I could find is for dark-eyed junco, the first sound in a recording from AZ described as for the “gray-headed group.” The similar species listed (WEWA, CHSP, OCWA) don’t have close to the pattern I heard. Has anyone heard anything like this? If so, have you ID’d the bird? Thanks, Mike Koutnik ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
