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MtDoraDave
07-01-2019, 12:07
Does anyone know what kind of songbird lives at the Laurel Creek Shelter that sings so incredibly loudly at 5:00 am?
jimmyjam
07-01-2019, 12:34
Whippoorwill?
Lone Wolf
07-01-2019, 13:50
Does anyone know what kind of songbird lives at the Laurel Creek Shelter that sings so incredibly loudly at 5:00 am?
this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIxfVSS_65o
MtDoraDave
07-01-2019, 17:23
It wasn't a whippoorwill, I'm familiar with their song. This one was much more melodious...and loud :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_YJC1SjHE
blue indian
07-02-2019, 13:18
I work for the Audubon Society...
If you could provide more details I will help identify the culprit
blue indian
07-02-2019, 13:23
Its almost certainly not a white-throated sparrow. They breed in the boreal forest north of Pennsylvania
MtDoraDave
07-03-2019, 06:01
I work for the Audubon Society...
If you could provide more details I will help identify the culprit
I don't remember the song, but it was more of a song than just a few notes. It was very loud, and it started at 5:00 am, where everywhere else I slept during that section, they (the birds) started at 5:30.
I doubt that's enough information to identify it - my hope was that someone from that area of Virginia, or someone who has stayed at that shelter and is familiar with birds would have identified that particular one.
I got there early in the day, so I had time to read the log book, and for weeks this bird was the topic of people's writings. Things like "No bears, no mice, but that damn bird..."
blue indian
07-05-2019, 08:42
I don't remember the song, but it was more of a song than just a few notes. It was very loud, and it started at 5:00 am, where everywhere else I slept during that section, they (the birds) started at 5:30.
I doubt that's enough information to identify it - my hope was that someone from that area of Virginia, or someone who has stayed at that shelter and is familiar with birds would have identified that particular one.
I got there early in the day, so I had time to read the log book, and for weeks this bird was the topic of people's writings. Things like "No bears, no mice, but that damn bird..."
Haha....thats interesting
I would need more info for a positive ID......so the mystery continues!
randy.shopher
07-05-2019, 08:57
Do you have mockingbird? One sits in a tree next to my home and sings all night.
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MtDoraDave
07-05-2019, 16:43
Mockingbird is Florida's state bird, so yes...but I've not heard a mockingbird sing like this bird.
Maybe I'll post the question on the Facebook AT page. There seems to be a lot of people from that area on the page.
Dan Roper
07-06-2019, 22:48
At 5:30 in the morning in the open and close by, many spring songbirds will sound loud. The early hour makes me wonder: American robin?
Was the song unusual in any way? Whistle? Warble? Caroling? Mechanical-sounding? Rising? Dropping?
Some other guess possibilities: ovenbird, eastern towhee, red-eyed vireo
Dan Roper
07-06-2019, 22:51
Cornell University has a complete set of bird songs online and searchable. See: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/
Click the link, enter (for example), "red-eyed vireo" and then click the microphone icon. You'll get to hear that species. Ditto all the others.
Night Train
07-07-2019, 00:14
Brown Thrasher?
At 5:30 in the morning in the open and close by, many spring songbirds will sound loud. The early hour makes me wonder: American robin
Occum's razor. This was my initial thought. The robin is often overlooked because it is so common. I live in town and most days the robin wakes me up before my alarm. I'm talking like 4:30 in the morning. We have one in our yard with an unusual song. Has a funny trill in it that fooled me into thinking it was a house finch or rose breasted grosbeak until I saw it singing.