ML590953461
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Heard first on July 1 at 2030 singing partial song — introductory accelerating whistles minus the finishing trill. With lots of other background noise it was faint and difficult to localize but appeared to come from the hayfield just outside of the campground or the shrubs along the river beside it. The bird sang four or five times over 60 - 90 seconds, then stopped. On July 2, the field was mowed. We listened at dawn and dusk on the 2nd, and at dawn on the 3rd, but didn’t hear the song repeated. Tonight at around 1900, we heard the introductory whistles, sporadically, coming from the grassy open area dotted with shrubs on the low hillside across the river from our campsite. Eventually, by 2015, the bird started singing its full song. We could hear about five to eight, slightly slurred whistles that accelerated into a rapid, descending trill. It sang about a dozen times, in short spurts, over about 30 minutes. It was faint, and every other bird in the campground was singing, but we managed one half-decent recording clip. It stopped singing before sunset.
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