ML583375661
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*rare and late; species 226 for park; calling flyby headed S at 6:06 just after I documented the House Crows. First noticed from sharp and somewhat musical ‘spip’ call, which I recognized as different and interesting but presumed was going to be a Russet Sparrow since I have detected them twice in the past week by their somewhat similar call (in fact, I remember hoping yesterday’s Russet would be a Forest Wagtail!). When I got this one in my binocular it was a chesty pipit-shaped bird with a medium-length tail (not long like a Motacilla Wagtail). I could clearly seen a complex pattern of pale and dark in the wings and even the pale underparts with a narrow but bold dark breastband. It flew on fast, direct flight with shallow undulation, not as strongly undulating as a Motacilla wagtail. ADDENDUM 10 Jun I processed my recording and am fairly confident that the distant call at 1.6 seconds on the recording tis the somewhat Passer-like flight call of the Forest Wagtail. It had been calling every 2-3 seconds as it flew and it was quite distant when I started recording, but I thought I had a chance at getting it, and the range and quality of that single call does seem correct for the experience at that point. Maybe not enough to be diagnostic in itself, but I think it is supportive documentation in the context of this report. OIt does have a clear signal on the spectrogram that may help.
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