<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Casey, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Having birded in California for decades, I'm quite familiar with Wrentits and, to be honest, did not expect your recording to be like one. After listening to it, I'm fairly convinced it actually is a Wrentit! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">First, as you describe, it sounds like one, without a trill. Note that females do not do the trill at the end. Here's an example of a "half-song", probably a female. <a href="https://xeno-canto.org/351988">https://xeno-canto.org/351988</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Second, the sonogram fits well, especially with recordings that are some distance away. For example, compare it to the background bird on my recording here -- <a href="https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/217940591">https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/217940591</a> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">--especially the note on my recording at about 5.4 seconds in. Your bird's sonogram also has a hint of a flatish declining top, which some Wrentit sonograms show. Some also show a double wave at the top, but yours (and mine above) show a single wave. Finally, the call notes on your recording at 21 and 22.5 seconds show a harmonic at 6 kHz, exactly where the harmonic in the female call note is. I cannot find a clean example of a female at the moment, but there's one between 7 and 10 seconds here in the background behind the trill of a male. <a href="https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/212160">https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/212160</a> Ignoring the trill, the sonogram here looks like yours. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Do you have a lat-long for this bird? It should be confirmed visually. I've always thought Washington's first Wrentit would be upriver of Portland (not counting Puget Island), but I think they can surprise us. After all the fires in California, they've appeared (and established themselves) in isolated riparian patches on the Sacramento Valley floor where they would have had to cross two miles of nearly bare fields. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Really interesting stuff! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 7:37 PM casey cunningham <<a href="mailto:redpeelingbark@gmail.com">redpeelingbark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Tweeters,<div><br><div>Yesterday i was on the north jetty rocks of the Columbia and heard a note i couldn't identify that made me think of wrentits, and I remember someone mentioning a possible wrentit at this location. The note reminds me of the first note in their song and seemed to be coming from in the boulders. I'm not saying it was a wrentit, just that it was wrentittian. Anyone know this call? Am i forgetting something obvious?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S127237513" target="_blank">https://ebird.org/checklist/S127237513</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>I couldn't get a view of the source and the only birds i saw on the rocks nearby were two song sparrows. </div></div><div><br></div><div>On another note, this morning there was a bullock's oriole in Long Beach. More detail here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S127238468" target="_blank">https://ebird.org/checklist/S127238468</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Casey Cunningham</div><div>Portland </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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