ML498726671
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 1
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback used
Media notes
Near a babbling brook, doing plenty of babbling
Observation details
Photos and recording. Two individuals traveling together, one noticeably more reddish brown than the other. At the same time that we saw both wrens, Bonnie Dickman (who was with us at the time) received a text message from Paul Dickman, who was about 200 yards upstream from the 4 of us, that he had a third wren, presumably a Pacific Wren. We were about 20 yards downstream from the final stream crossing (4th crossing, the way I count) before you get to the "meadow". The bird was on the west side of the stream, making its "check-check" call, responding to iBird playback. At that time, we took several photographs, and then noticed the second, llghter colored bird appear from the underbrush. We had both birds in view at the same time. Neither could have been the third bird Paul was seeing at the same time. Because they were traveling together, we assumed the second bird was also a Winter Wren, but since it did not vocalize, perhaps we cannot be sure. Therefore, we re-listed the sighting as one Winter Wren and the second as a Winter/Pacific Wren. The darker colored bird was confirmed as Winter Wren both photographically and by audio recording by Merlin as a Winter Wren.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra / Merlin Sound ID
- Microphone
- Rode VideoMic Go II
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 1.93 MB