Unknown (to me) bird call: help?
Nowadays I'm at the Metro bus stop just at dawn: sunlight, but still too grey to see much detail. The last few days a bird has been calling very loudly - close enough to see, it seems, but yet invisible. Well, probably just not very big, and well hidden in the tangle of trees behind the bus stop.
His call is simple: two notes, high, then low - a whistling "weeee-oooo" - repeated twice. Occasionally he mixes it up with three repeats, and a couple of times this morning he pushed it all the way to four, though he mostly seemed to run out of breath, ending up on the weee: weee-oooo, weee-oooo, weee-oooo, weeeeee. It's a pure sound, not piercing, but not melodious.
So I don't have to go to the Cornell site and listen to every bird in the state ... anybody have any ideas for narrowing it down?
Labels: birds, miscellaneous
2 Comments:
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At 10:42 PM, April 09, 2009
John B. had this to say...
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At 5:01 AM, April 10, 2009
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I'm not sure without hearing the call myself, so I would suggest listening to some songs from the common birds around your house. A loud invisible bird could also be a Carolina Wren. Their typical song has three syllables (like teakettle-teakettle-teakettle), but some wrens sing two instead. Tufted Titmice have a two-note whistled song, Cardinals have a variety of whistled songs, and Robins have a varied vocabulary that could possibly include a two-part call. The description also matches Black-capped Chickadee, but that would be unlikely in suburban Maryland.
Great! Thanks, John: that's what I was looking for - not an id, but some pointers. I don't think it's a cardinal or a robin, I'm pretty familiar with what they sound like, and he sustains this for up to ten minutes, only varying it by when he "pauses for a breath".
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