ML105295341
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- Sounds
- Call; Song
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Observation details
Kristin told me that she has seen and heard LOWA on her property in preceding years and that she had heard them this year. We made an effort today to search the stream that flows through the property for LOWA and evidence of breeding. The stream is a small rocky woodland stream that flows into the Sheepscot River. It is typical LOWA breeding habitat. We encountered a single bird, initially hearing the distinctive loud chip note of LOWA and then the loud, slurred, musical song. We didn't have great views of the bird but I did see the broad white supercilium, and it was bobbing constantly. I am familiar with LOWA nests from field work in NY State, so I thought that there was a reasonable chance that we could find the nest, even if young had already fledged. We found an empty nest in the stream bank that had the compressed leaf entrance typical of LOWA nests. This is definitely this years nest, a nest from previous years would have been washed away in spring runoff.
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- Iphone6
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- 1.97 MB