ML218950651
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Spontaneous song recorded at 9:03 am by a continuing, and presumably male, Blue-headed Vireo by Curtis A. Marantz on 22 March 2020 at the north end willows at Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park, Harbor City, Los Angeles County, California. This bird had been present at least since initially photographed at this site on 2 March 2020 by Bobby T. When recorded, the vireo was 15-25 meters away and 4-5 meters up as it moved through the middle and upper branches of scrubby willows on west side of Wilmington Drain about 150 meters south of Pacific Coast Highway. I had seen the vireo well before I made the recording and without binoculars while I was recording. It was partly cloudy, with a 35% over of high clouds and calm. Baja California Treefrog can also be heard croaking in the background of this recording.
Observation details
(singing and calling; given that my concentration was on getting recordings, I did not study as carefully as I had before the continuing bird that has been present at least since photographed at this site on 2 March 2020 by Bobby T; I heard or saw this bird intermittently from 7:51 and to 9:03 am, and saw it at distances ranging six to about 25 meters)
Additional species
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Song Sparrow (heermanni Group) Melospiza melodia [heermanni Group]
- Bushtit Psaltriparus minimus
- Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Cassin's Vireo Vireo cassinii
- Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) Setophaga coronata auduboni
- Common Raven Corvus corax
- Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus/sasin
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
Technical information
- Recorder
- Nagra ARES-BB+
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH-20
- Accessories
- Roché 30” fiberglass parabola
- Original file size
- 30.34 MB