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Re: Hermit Thrush vocalizing



Besides hearing Hermie(the hermit thrush) sing this
AM, I was excited to hear our first Yellow-throated
warbler loudly announcing his presence all through our
woods(near the Haw River-central NC)! 
Kate
--- Chris Hill <chill@kingfish.coastal.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, John Daughtry wrote:
> 
> > A Hermit Thrush was singing its song in my yard
> near Greenville, NC
> > today.  I used to declare that I never heard that
> song before they
> > left.  It is not as ringing as what I hear on
> their breeding grounds,
> > and it has a lot of competition, but I wanted to
> thank my Carolinabirds
> > friends for teaching me to listen for it.
> 
> One thing I've noticed about sound quality is how
> much habitat influences
> it.  This was brought home to me during one spring
> migration when I heard
> an odd sounding Common Yellowthroat in a shrubby
> field, singing a two
> syllabled "wichy wichy wichy" instead of the usual
> "wichity wichity
> wichity.  I found it, and lo and behold, it was an
> Ovenbird, foraging "out
> of habitat" while migrating. The ringing quality of
> the Ovenbird song is
> apparently produced in part by echoes off the tree
> trunks in their
> breeding habitat, while the dry scratchiness of
> Common Yellowthroats may
> be emphasized by the shrubby habitat they sing in. 
> So the lack of
> "ringing" in the Hermit Thrush you heard might have
> to do with where you
> heard it more than how it was singing.
> 
> Chris Hill
> Conway, SC
> 


=====
Kate Finlayson
N. Chatham Co.,N.C.
katefin@yahoo.com

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