Nature lovers

[evesdream]

Any bird enthusiasts?

We were in a park a few days ago and saw a greyish little bird with a long tail singing a prolonged and extraordinary song, never the same patterns twice.

I recorded a small portion of it. https://soundcloud.com/user-439224231/singing-bird-in-the-park

I think I've successfully identified this bird, but do you think you can do it, too?

We're in the American Northeast

(Atchung JohnnySavage...it was NOT an owl.)

 

[yossi]

I work with a lot of birders, but I've never been a good one. Beautiful song.

 

[evesdream]

It was amazing, yossi. It just went on and on, constantly changing.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Did it look like this?

http://www.birdsandblooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/songbirds_Song_Sparrow.jpg

 

[evesdream]

Did it look like this?

Oh what a cutie!
No it was a bigger bird than that and kind of long and slender.
What type is that one in the photo?

 

[Killswitch1]

I have a second season robins nest on my front porch.

4 fledglings about two weeks old. Last year the bird had two litters of four each almost back to back.

The nest is so solidly built and protected from weather I just left it after cleaning up they're mess.

Sure as hell another one or same one or offspring moved in and sure as hell I cant sit on my porch in the evening because of them.

grrr.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Oh what a cutie!
No it was a bigger bird than that and kind of long and slender.
What type is that one in the photo?

That's a song sparrow, yours might have been a hermit thrush. That recording was great, many pros don't get such quality.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/PHOTO/LARGE/hermit_thrush_glamor.jpg

 

[evesdream]

I have a second season robins nest on my front porch.

4 fledglings about two weeks old. Last year the bird had two litters of four each almost back to back.

The nest is so solidly built and protected from weather I just left it after cleaning up they're mess.

Sure as hell another one or same one or offspring moved in and sure as hell I cant sit on my porch in the evening because of them.

grrr.

The only thing I don't like about robins is that they make us watch them eat worms. Other than that, they're wonderful birds.

That's a song sparrow, yours might have been a thrush. That recording was great, many pros don't get such quality.

That picture is so sweet you can almost hear it start singing its heart out.
It was just my lousy Android phone. I didn't even bother trying to take a picture, because the quality is usually such crap.

 

[yossi]

It was amazing, yossi. It just went on and on, constantly changing.

I went hiking with some friends on the Delaware water gap a few weeks ago, and waking up to the birds singing outside the tent in the morning made it worth sleeping in a tent.

 

[KarenB59]

Mockingbird?

 

[Disgustipated]

ParodyLover?

 

[Super-Surprise]

The rarely seen, yellow-bellied sapsucker?

https://i.imgur.com/3NdYlHZ.jpg

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Mockingbird?

Yep, I bet it was, the song was so varied.

Eve, did it look like this one? https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/PHOTO/LARGE/009982-001-01.jpg

 

[neci]

that is such a beautiful song. truth be told, i am an amateur at best when it comes to birding. i love reading through my great grandmother's "Birds of Arizona and the Southwest" reference book, when visiting my parent's home. i sit out on the back porch with binoculars, hoping for a flash of color, movement in the distance. herons visit the pond in their backyard. i get cardinals in the bushes and an ungodly amount of vultures in the sky. you would think there are dead things all over the town i live in. there probably are.

 

[thør]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiZA5V0UYAAZIHX.jpg

This guy came and hung out while we were on the deck after dinner.

 

[pearldiver69]

Have to agree with Karen

Mockingbird?

After listening to the songs (calls) you recorded, I'm about 99% sure that this was a Mockingbird, the "Northern" variety which definitely lives in your area. I live in the deep south and as I type this there are Mockingbirds singing almost identical songs just outside my open windows. They're proclaiming their "territory" and/or trying to attract a mate. Enjoy.

 

[trysail]

Any bird enthusiasts?

We were in a park a few days ago and saw a greyish little bird with a long tail singing a prolonged and extraordinary song, never the same patterns twice.

I recorded a small portion of it. https://soundcloud.com/user-439224231/singing-bird-in-the-park

I think I've successfully identified this bird, but do you think you can do it, too?

We're in the American Northeast

(Atchung JohnnySavage...it was NOT an owl.)

Mockingbird?

Bingo.

I knew it was a mockingbird the minute I read the OP.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Mimus_polyglottos1.jpg/640px-Mimus_polyglottos1.jpg


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[Desert Amazon]

After listening to the songs (calls) you recorded, I'm about 99% sure that this was a Mockingbird, the "Northern" variety which definitely lives in your area. I live in the deep south and as I type this there are Mockingbirds singing almost identical songs just outside my open windows. They're proclaiming their "territory" and/or trying to attract a mate. Enjoy.

That's what I think as well.

I even played it through a BirdSongID app I have on my iPhone and said the same (74%).

Living in New England now (used to be in Phx), I enjoy the sounds of so many different types of song birds. My yard is like it's own symphony!