ML98249931
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - X
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Observation details
Including 2 *beyond property boundary*; 15 singing. Heard 4 singing regularly from the start point and female rattle calls from 2, but the singing seemed a bit less frequent and intense than on the previous survey. Early in the survey I was hearing whiny, slurred, high-pitched calls from time to time, like the video I got on the previous survey from female meadowlarks. I wasn't sure what the significance of these calls was, but I definitely heard more of them on this survey than previously. At 0639 I heard warbled flight song from a meadowlark and saw (the same) WEME fluttering its wings just above the grasses just E of the sewage pond fence. It appeared to be just above another WEME that was down in the grasses, with another meadowlark in the grasses within 1/2 m. The fluttering individual then flew up to the fence and made whistled "weet?" calls. I then heard female rattle calls from at least 1 of the 2 down in the grass. I was not sure about the significance of this sighting, but I wondered if I just missed a copulation.
Technical information
- Recorder
- TASCAM DR-05
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 22.27 MB