Have You Ever Heard this Sparrow in Your Field ?

Rick · #1 05/25/10, 03:03 PM

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Field_Sparrow/sounds

We are hearing ours fro the trees.

It is dscribed on this web site as "The Field Sparrow is a common, drab sparrow of brushy pastures and old fields. It has a simple, yet distinctive song of repeated clear whistled notes on one pitch that increase in rate until they make a trill."

I had put in a search as: "15 notes lowering in pitch" and it sounds all most identical to the one(s) we hear.

MullersLaneFarm · #2 05/25/10, 06:39 PM

Oh yes! Actually when I played the sound from your link, I had one outside the window answer back!

Heard a new songbird the other day ... an Oriole!

Rick · #3 05/25/10, 08:34 PM

Cool1 Some other songbirds were answering as I used trial and error to find the Field Sparrow.

Emmy D · #4 05/26/10, 09:47 AM

Isn't Cornell a wonderful site!

I have Field, Song and many many Chipping Sparrows this year! I don't know if it is because I have let the old pastures just go and stopped mowing them or what.

I also have Cardinals, Indigo Buntings, Peewees, House Wrens, Phoebes, Barn Swallows, Eastern Kingbirds (4!!), a single Bluebird and the typical Mourning Doves, Robins, Starlings and Grackles.

I love birds!!

Emmy

Rick · #5 05/26/10, 10:24 AM

It sure is.

I am not sure about the Peewees or Eastern Kingbirds, but we have most you mentioned along with Summer and Scarlet Tanagers.

I will have to look those 2 up!

Last Spring a bluebird was quietly hanging out in our chimney when I started an evening wood-stove fire. He made it out and perched on the last window sill with any light to see. It jumped on the screen when I opened the window, and flew several hundred feet up into an oak when I took the screen out.

Emmy D · #6 05/26/10, 11:54 AM

Rick, I have only seen a Scarlet Tanager once, how wonderful for you to have them around. Weird, but in my reading on birds they like butter, put in a dish like you would jelly for the Orioles!

The Kingbird is awesome and I love to watch them and the Barn Swallows while I am mowing they eat a LOT of bugs, as do the Pewees (proper spelling only one e in the first part) and Phoebes.

Emmy

Patt · #7 05/26/10, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by MullersLaneFarm

Oh yes! Actually when I played the sound from your link, I had one outside the window answer back!

Heard a new songbird the other day ... an Oriole!

That's funny I did too just now.

We have a lot of different sparrows here. A lot of birds period. Thanks for the link, that will be a good place to look them up!