ML397502801
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Freeway traffic is the primary sound but faint tittered chips can be heard at 0:00, 0:01, and 0:02 seconds.
Observation details
Unexpected at this site in winter though are regular here in spring and summer. While standing at the trail head where the trail splits to left and right I heard interesting chip notes that immediately brought to mind a Grasshopper Sparrow. The chips had the metallic pitch and quality of an Orange-crowned Warbler's "tschip", were of very short duration and slightly tittered with three notes closely strung together. I can best describe it as a stuttered "tsitsitsip" made in about half a second. After a long wait I briefly saw the bird perch low in a dead mustard clump on the inside corner of the right bend of the trail at the southern point of the loop trail. I only saw it from behind but I could clearly see the back was intricately patterned with white, rufous, gray, and tan. Tail was short and tan with darker centers. I glimpsed the tan face once where I could distinguish a bold white eye ring and an ochre supraloral spot.
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