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[oakenguy]

There's a new species of bird in the neighborhood.

This has me RIDICULOUSLY excited.

Lemme explain: about 80% of the local birds are either starlings or English sparrows. After that we've got pigeons. Closer to the river there are gulls, a lot more pigeons, and some geese. So your average day of birdcalls sounds like this:

Sparrow: Twirp! Twirp!
Starling: Tweee-o! Twee! Twee!
Sparrow: Twirp!

And then there was today, when I heard:

Sparrow: Twirp! Twirp!
Starling: Twee! Twee!
Unseen New Bird: Twittily-doo DEE doo Twittily dee!
Sparrow:. o O (the hell was that?)

RIDICULOUSLY excited.

Comments

[rigel.livejournal.com]

Any idea what it is?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

None! Which is part of the thrill.

There was an oriole in the neighborhood last week, but the singing today wasn't anything like the calls it was making then. None of the other usual suspects--mockingbird, wild canary, cardinal--match up. I'm stumped!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to take the woodpecker who lives in my neighborhood.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oh, do you have one of the ones who likes feeding at 6AM? Each day, so you can use them like an alarm clock?

[bismuthobsidian.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh...Maybe a chicadee?

(This is fun. I used to work at Mass Audubon.)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I don't think so...I grew up with them in Maine, and I never heard them make a noise like this. (Besides, this was coming from a tree on the other side of Memorial Drive--it'd have to be a chickadee with HUGE lungpower!)

[helianthas.livejournal.com]

chickadees go "Chick-a-DEE-DEE-DEE-DEE!"

I think you may have a Song Sparrow hanging around.
The "twirp"ers are House Sparrows.

Both considered "LBB"s, though ("little brown birds") but song sparrows kind of rock. They like to get up high and do thier little complicated trills...

[vozeatscake.livejournal.com]

I wish I could send you one of the Carolina Wrens that live around here. The book says they say something about tea kettles, but it's CLEARLY: Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger! Cheese!

[phobean.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine that you don't have bluejays, cardinals, mocking birds, or chickadees in your neigborhood. There's plenty of them in Dot. I think cardinals are the ones that shout "theater! theater!"

Of course, your neighborhood has those baby skunk rings that mine does not...

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I've always heard cardinals as shouting, "Hurricane! Hurricane!" :)

[coscaram.livejournal.com]

Maybe you have a sparrow that can scat.

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

you need to do me a favor and go over to your rotary and take pictures of the goose colony that is down there. They are sooo cute looking and its a huge group of them

[eroika.livejournal.com]

Starlings and English Sparrows aren't local!! Their illegal immigrants ;)

Have you seen the new bird? I better with bird physical descriptions verses calls. However I'll ask my mom when next I talk to her b/c she's a serious bird-watcher :)

[bulrogue.livejournal.com]

Possibly a red-wing blackbird...

Any marsh/swamp/river nearby? That's where you usually hear/see them.

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

I'm awful at songbirds...Much better with Raptors...Only thing I can think of is a Chickadee, who are known to modify thier "typical" calls for different situations...But don't let the size fool you, they know how to *project* that voice!

Maybe a Bluebird?

[hazeleyedfae.livejournal.com]

... I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's a... um...



BIRDY BIRD BIRD!