ML592290861
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- Age
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- Sex
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- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
singing in field along Old Mill Rd; 2 audio recordings joined together with a silenced transition at 0:47
Observation details
Singing bird at approximately these coordinates (40.3348915, -74.7707773); initially heard along Old Mill Rd while en route to Mercer Meadows, immediately slowed down and pulled over once I was level with the bird; bird moved around a lot but never completely out of audible range at any point during my stay; visually less cooperative but seen occasionally in low, short relocating flights and a few times while it was perched, sometimes while singing though it always stayed quite low in grasses while it sang; a distinctive, fairly harsh, choppy song of 1-3 loud chips followed by a variable chatter/rattle/trill; small, short tailed wren, buffy/tawny overall with streaked back, barred wings, relatively plain face; doc audio and terrible doc photos tba Some wildly fortunate timing on this sighting…sometimes you get lucky. I was following my GPS route while driving to Mercer Meadows (never birded this area before) and started opening my windows on a whim when I saw some grassland habitat to my left (just after turning off of Pennington Rocky Hill Rd). I’m not sure I even had my windows all the way down yet when I heard the singing Sedge Wren. A few seconds more with my windows up and I’d be passed this bird and probably beyond audible range considering driving speed.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Marantz PMD661 MKII
- Microphone
- Wildtronics Pro Mono Parabolic Microphone
- Accessories
- Wildtronics 22" Parabola
- Original file size
- 20.93 MB