ML279137281
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Written at time: Clearly heard raspy calls. Furtive, solitary bird - unable to get a photo before it disappeared, sadly. Small tit, with more grey than I expected. Didn’t get a good look at head, but lack of white and black marks I’d expect on a chickadee. After event write-up: I had been soliciting for calls along the trail at irregular but frequent intervals. I stopped at a rock around 100m past the caves, above the spruce line, to take off a layer. I heard a BOCH giving it's sick-a-day calls around 25m down the trail where I had come from. I ran down the trail, but was unable to get a visual. Walking back to my backpack, I took out my mic, in order to get a recording. I may have solicited again - I can't remember. Presently, a small bird appeared in front of me, giving a sick-a-day call a few times before I managed to record. This may have been a different bird than the one I first heard. I am assuming it is the same bird, here. While recording, the bird gave a single sick-a-day call, which is barely present in the below recording. I heard nothing else from this bird, but noted that it had a gray belly, and that it was generally chickadee-sized. It did not flutter like a Kinglet, and soon disappeared into the bush. I did not see any other birds nearby. In the recording (attached), there are high tseets, which I did not hear at the time, and which others have identified as probably GCKI. I am unsure, based on looking at the spectrogram, and on listening to alarm seets described by Birds of the World, Nathan Pieplow, and a small handful of recordings on XenoCanto, all which sound and look similar to me of the BOCH call. Those calls are: - https://www.xeno-canto.org/59168 - https://www.xeno-canto.org/422830 - https://www.xeno-canto.org/401437 - https://www.xeno-canto.org/336434 - https://www.xeno-canto.org/157513 As I can describe the high tseet calls I could not hear at the time as being similar to other BOCH calls, and as I heard this bird give a common BOCH rasp, and as I saw a chickadee-like bird which didn't collocate with other chickadees and which responded to my BOCH solicitation, and as I did not note any Golden-crowned Kinglets present, I am happy identifying this bird (and the possible original first bird) as a Boreal Chickadee.
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- 4.27 MB