ML621335978
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 1
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Observation details
Continuing bird. First documented with audio recordings and photos by Hai-Dang Phan (July 4) and Mark and Janet Scheel (July 7), though I'm (NS) now pretty sure this bird has been singing in the canyon since at least June 18. We walked down the trail for about 0.3 miles from the parking lot when we ran into Noah Arthur and shortly thereafter heard the bird calling from the canopy of an alder tree by the trail. We had obstructed views of it, but got diagnostic views: a warbler with bright yellow orange throat and breast (darkest at the breast), white belly and vent. Dark gray face. No eye arcs seen, but the face wasn't seen well. Two white wingbars on gray wings. Didn't see much of the upperparts, and views were generally not the best. Distinguished from Northern Parula by the lack of a neck band, and by song. This bird sang almost constantly, giving one phrase about every 30 seconds, with some occasional pauses for several minutes while it foraged with "chip" calls. The song was very similar to the bird present in Dalton canyon earlier in the season -- certainly the same subspecies, and possibly the same individual? It started off with 5 Yellow-Warbler like notes (but fractionally different in that they were more warbling than sweet notes of a Yellow Warbler), followed by a rapid trill (buzz?) and an emphatic note at the end. There was no variation in the song for an hour. The chip calls sounded like a Yellow Warbler but flatter. The bird sang well past local sunset, with the last song recorded at 8:05 pm.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- Zoom F3
- Microphone
- Rode NTG2
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 9.01 MB