ML620231280

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Woah. Will submit to the CBRC. Was getting back in the car to move on to the residential area before hearing the loud and high-pitched “pureee” calls. I immediately was in complete disbelief knowing this was very likely a new EAWP I was hearing from the one Nicole Koeltzow and Kris McMillan had on 6/5 at the southern side of the cemetery (1st county record). I quickly scrambled through my stuff and grabbed my camera and power walked over to the Chinese Elms where the bird was seen at 32.69328° N, 117.24408° W. I quickly grabbed a couple recordings and photos and ran to Kris to notify her who immediately contacted Paul who showed up to the scene shortly after and to which David also showed up. We worked on getting more photos of the bird and ultimately, more sound recordings for the bird calling which sounded like a typical EAWP. Unlike WEWP, this bird had a brighter yellow lower mandible, slightly longer primary projection, less brownish and a lighter underparts and frontside than a typical western-wood, a slightly slanted down and a more relaxed posture than of a typical WEWP, and lastly, higher pitched and slurred “pureeee” calls unlike the harsher and burry calls of a WEWP. Unlike the bird in the southern side of the cemetery last seen a few days prior to today, this bird seems to have a brighter (but not fully yellow) lower mandible with some darkness towards the tip of the lower mandible, a bolder (sort of empid-like) eyering, and slightly brighter wingbars. Very cool! *Note: Lehman certainly had this bird briefly (not vocalizing and unidentified) earlier in the morning when some moron flushed the bird prior to before I found it.

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