Folks,
I'm impressed. This is indeed a grosbeak, a juvenile black-headed grosbeak.
There were two family groups in my yard the day I made this recording, at
one point 7 or 8 were making this call simultaneously.
I couldn't find the call on my Sibley app or on other on-line guides
either. I
I concur with Tina Mitchell: Young black-headed grosbeaks in my neck of the
woods make the same calls when begging to be fed. It's a plaintive, descending
sound, often as a single note but usually followed by one or two quicker
ascending calls and resolving on that descending note. It's like a
Hi, folks—
To my ear, this sounds like late July/August at our house in pinyon-juniper
habitat in Frémont County—the incessant begging calls of young Black-headed
Grosbeaks. We don’t live there anymore, but the sound immediately transported
me back.
Tina Mitchell
formerly Lakewood/Coaldale;
