Re: [cobirds] atypical Blue-winged Warbler song type

On Friday, June 13, 2014 2:34:56 PM UTC-6, Peter Burke wrote:

Anyway, northern migration is all but complete, birds are tending nests making who-knows-what kind of new hybrids and with the solstice just around the corner, it seems like a fine time to initiate high conversation on COBirds.

Happy summer COBirders!

I'm not sure if the following constitutes "high conversation," but here goes.

Yesterday evening, Tuesday, June 17, Hannah and Andrew and I made recordings of an interesting Spotted Towhee along the Fowler Trail, Boulder County. Here is Andrew's recording of the bird singing a somewhat atypical, tripartite song, the second element lowest (a la Eastern Towhee):

https://soundcloud.com/ted-floyd/spto-andrew

Hannah recorded the same bird giving a bipartite song more typical of Spotted Towhee:

https://soundcloud.com/ted-floyd/spto-hannah 

Here's a recording, by Yours Truly, in which the bird switches between song types:

https://soundcloud.com/ted-floyd/spto-2014-06-17-1922-colo-boul-fotr

Finally, Andrew couldn't resist recording this Lazuli Bunting:

https://soundcloud.com/ted-floyd/lazuli-bunting-by-andrew-floyd

Other birds in the general area were at least three, probably four, and maybe even five pink-and-green Lewis's Woodpeckers and a great throng of White-throated Swifts.

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado

 

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