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Re: Winter song
- To: "Armstrong, Craig" <CraigArmstrong@PerformanceInc.com>, carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Re: Winter song
- From: Norman Budnitz <nbudnitz@duke.edu>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:12:57 -0500
- In-reply-to: <624C1119C6F9D3118C4A009027C23181020423A5@PRFEXC>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
I was visiting friends in California and went to hike through one of the
coast redwood groves nearby. As I was walking through the forest, I heard
a winter wren singing. I tracked down the bird and finally found it.
Picture this:
Here was this tiniest of wrens, pumping up and down, pouring forth with
song, perched atop a redwood stump from a tree that had been at least 8
feet in diameter!
Norm
At 10:26 AM 11/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
I went for a walk this morning to watch the sunrise and listen to the birds
wake up. Opening the door I was greeted with an amazing song from the dark,
one I didn't recognize. It sounded like the song of a finch, repeating and
going on and on like so many finches seem to. I made my way toward the
trees where the songs were coming from and was able to make out the tiniest
silhouette of the singing bird perched about 15 feet up. I couldn't make
out many characteristics of the bird and figured it was either a Kinglet,
Junco, or Winter Wren from it's size, or maybe a Warbler I didn't know. As
soon as light peeked over the horizon the songs stopped and the little guy
disappeared.
This is where I have to give thanks to technology. I went home and put in
the Stokes bird call CD set to check out the 3 main suspects. Found out it
was the Winter Wren. I had no idea they sang such beautiful songs, I'm only
used to hearing their constant low muttering when following them on the
ground through thickets.
A wonderful way to start the day.
Craig Armstrong / Chapel Hill
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