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Rachel heard a bird song the other day that she couldn't identify. It probably wasn't two calling doves. Hit the comments, please, research geeks.
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I don't know, but I just spent a lovely five minutes on this site to see if I could get it.
it is a chirping bird.
Isn't it a chickadee?
Another great site for bird identification - Cornell Ornithology
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1189
I was raised a city person so now as I sit on my porch and observe and hear birds I decided to educate myself a bit about what I was seeing and hearing. The sounds are not so easy. There are songs and calls....both different in the same bird from what I can hear. Good luck!
The shrill cry at the beginning sounds like a raptor of some sort (according to a master falconer friend of mine). Try asking a falconer in the Massachusetts area.
Wow not sure what bird that is but it sounds like it may belong the the warbler family. Was it coming from ground level or up in the trees?
It was the sound of a jailbird squealing because Bubba had him :)
German "Socialist-Red"-throated Loon-atic
It's a Yellow-Breasted Right Wing Warbler telling you that your state parks are unfunded because we're at WAR, and, in case you needed a reminder, it's mimicking an incoming mortar.
Seriously, though... I got nothing. Zip, zero, zilch.
It is a Black-capped Chickadee. You can play the sound at Whatbird by clicking on the Black-capped Chickadee Voice Two sound.
http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/680/_/Black-capped_Chickadee.aspx
Love you Rachel!!! I hope this puts your mind at ease!
"Me and my neighbors"??? Rachel, Rachel, Rachel.
I think it is very funny that the answers range from raptor to chickadee. That is like asking "what kind of car was it" and getting "Either a VW bug or a Mac Truck."
I've posted it on my blog. One of my readers will know. My wife is on her way home, and she'll likely know as well.
Which park were you in (or at least what kind of trees / landscape)? What time was it?
ah grasshoppers - perhaps being with 'not knowing' is the lesson here.
It's an Eastern Wood Pewee.
I agree- wood peewee
Rachel, Please Be Careful Walking in the Woods! I have a Feeling that it was Not a Bird at All.
Maybe a Crazy, Psychotic Tea Partier Making ( a Bird Call) and ( Bird Noises)??
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest??? LOL, Joking!
Diana B
This is just a guess , Bill O' Reily's mating call to Glenn Beck...
My mother, a big fan of John James Audubon, could have told us. She was a nature lover, bird watcher. One day when I realized she was bored, and felt no one appreciated her hobbies. Other people laughed at her avid counting. I told her about important scientific studies that were based on bird watcher journals. Important information on migration habits, and threatened species can be gathered. My mother became an avid journal keeper. She noted the number and kind of birds, butterflies, and any just about anything else that came along every day, morning, noon, and night. She'd record the names of birds she could not see sometimes, by the songs she heard. She could also save any plant you or just about anybody else would have killed too. My mother passed away three years ago. On that day she had gone to into the living room and gotten out her journal, as she had done so many times before, but was never able to complete her first entry. So, in case any interested ornithologists are out there, we have several years of journals, one day being donated to LSU archives.
Not a black capped chickadee, which by the way, makes its way to Louisiana for the winter, and sometimes stays the summer.
I don't know about black-capped chickadees going south to Louisiana for the winter, we see them in New England all the time when snow is on the ground. They are common winter visitors to our bird feeders. They are also the state bird of Massachusetts. Maybe the Carolina Chickadee is your Louisiana visitor?
Another post last night (http://tiny.cc/38m4a) identified Rachel's bird as a black-capped chickadee, as I am not an expert in bird calls I have no comment.
No, definitely a vistor to Louisiana, check the migratory maps. My mom even had pictures of them. One from my brother's floating camp in the swamp between the Tickfaw, and Lake Maurepas. I've seen three, definite, black capped chickadees in Louisiana, 2 in winter, one in spring actually nesting at the farm of an Acadian friend who has since passed away, at the age of 97. Mom knew her birds, definitely more common to Massachusetts. We only see them rarely here. I also once saw a migratory group of white throated sparrow here, very rare, only the once. Also on the migration maps.
There is almost always one other possibility, the mockingbird. We used to have one that made the neighbor check his car alarm in the middle of the night, it wasn't the alarm it was that darn bird!
I think we're all wrong. It was the American bald eagle in chains, weeping.....
not a raptor, not a chickadee, not a bluebird...its funny how matter of fact people are when they are way off. im not sure what it is but it isnt those things.
Common Yellow Throat Warbler.
Perhaps the Blue Jay sounding it's "Hawk alarm call" found a site I love: http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/99/overview/Blue_Jay.aspx
I tend to agree with electrochris: Most or all of the suggestions so far are unlikely.
Keep this in mind: Tree frogs and insects contribute to the cacophony.
Amanda did not know, though her expertise is Minnesota, it does not sound familiar to me either, and there's a reasonable chance I've walked in the same or nearby woods.
I think it's a Red-tailed Hawk :http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/41/_/Red-tailed_Hawk.aspx
This website let's you hone in on a the location and birds that frequent it
http://www.whatbird.com/
As the breeding season draws to a close, fewer of our northern songbirds are still singing in the woods. However, the Eastern Wood Pewee does continue to sing and has a call that is similar to the one that Rachel recorded. However, I'm not convinced that the Pewee is our main suspect in this case. Last week, I heard a very similar call while in our nature Sanctuary in Central New York. It was the begging call of a fledgling Rose-breasted Grosbeak. I think that this was most likely what Rachel heard.
I have my own recording of a begging Rose-breasted Grosbeak fledgling and I'd be glad to send it in if an address is provided.
Thanks for the bird-geek segment.
- Matt
Sounds like a Blue Throated Warbler. BTW, there are 15 species of warblers in western MA. As a ex-patriot of Framingham, MA resident, the song of the Blue Throated Warbler was a rarity.