ML637199253

Observation details

Crazy!! While I was at work this past Thursday morning, I caught the sound of a singing vireo coming from somewhere in the woods near the back of the property. I quickly made my way towards the sound of the singing bird to get a better listen and hopefully, a recording. The bird sang for several minutes before it decided to move on. Unfortunately, I did not see the bird, but was able to get a somewhat decent recording of its vocalizations. I did not hear it after the original encounter or throughout the following day while at work. Even by comparing the two spectrograms from the recordings that I was able to get of the bird, with that of a spectrogram that I found online of a definitive YGVI, they seem to be very close. I did use the Merlin app to obtain a few of the recordings which obviously, the app failed to identify. This was due to my phone location pinging from Sarasota. For kicks, I changed my location on the app to a location to Brownsville, Texas (There is a higher probability of encountering a YGVI there than in Sarasota) and immediately Merlin identified the bird as a YGVI. Now, I'm not saying that I used the app to ID the bird outright. It was just that I had been curious and wanted a little more incentive to dive deeper into this possible MEGA at work scenario. I also found it very interesting that a YGVI had been found in West Palm County the very next morning. Now whether it was the same bird or not is anyones guess. And naturally, I compared the audio of the West Palm vireo, to this Sarasota bird, coming up with striking similarities as well. I even dove deeper, into my personal audio/video vault and found a video that I had taken several years ago, of a singing YGVI that had been discovered down around the S. Miami/Homestead area. And again, the vocalizations were very similar to one another.