ML168520051
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
One of the birds flew across the trail to my right, while the other stayed on the left side of the trail. Both seemed to be making the same "Whit" call. Both always positioned themselves with plenty of grass stems or thistles between them and me.
Observation details
A pair of them and possibly a young bird with American Goldfinches near the thistles and Tree Swallows on the Red Trail. I had a difficult time identifying the birds, because their call note was simply "Whit," and they were very shy about being photographed, so I have only dreadful photographs. I considered Sedge Wren, because of the plain face, plain breast, shape of the bill, and supercilium and then settled on Dickcissel, because of the reddish shoulder patch and a number of plain Dickcissels in the McCaulay library. I have changed the ID on the advice of Chris Wood..
Technical information
- Recorder
- Sound Devices MIXPRE3
- Microphone
- Telinga ProUniversal parabolic ME62 Sennheiser Omni mic
- Accessories
- 22 inch parabola
- Original file size
- 1.21 MB