[mou] Song ID help
Pastor Al Schirmacher
PastorAl@PrincetonFreeChurch.net
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:32:19 -0500
While walking the back side of Blue Hill Trail in Sherburne NWR (near
Princeton, MN), heard a completely unfamiliar song. The song was quite loud
(stop you in the middle of a trail loud, although 25 yards away), medium
pitch, five notes followed by a bit of a rolling ending. I would describe it
as wah-weet-weet-wah-whir, with pronounced emphasis on the two weet-weet
portions (much lower & somewhat slower than a shorebird's weet-weet).
The songs came in two pairs of two verbalizations each, initially sounding
very near the ground, then at mid-canopy. The area is oak savanna,
relatively open woods & grasslands, with the sound initially occuring 3-5
feet into the woods. Twenty minutes of pant-staining search through brush
yielded nothing.
The loudness & pitch was very close to a Carolina Wren, although I'm only
familiar with its "churry-churry-churry" call. I could not make a
determination from Sibley whether it may have been a CW alternate
verbalization (which is all I have in the car).
Help!
Al Schirmacher
Princeton, MN
Mille Lacs & Sherburne Counties