<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Thank you and you’re absolutely correct. Please allow me to add the details I should have included in the original post including my location, which is provided below.</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Arial" size="5"><br></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Arial" size="5">I am familiar with the range of the this pipit and was surprised to hear it’s call following it around my backyard through the front yard and into the greenbelt next-door, but could not get a visual.</font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Arial" size="5">Listening to the bird, at first, I thought it was a Black-capped chickadee, but it had a couple of notes that were different, which caught my attention.</font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Arial" size="5"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have observed and photographed the this species in the Olympic mountains, and in Nome Alaska.</span><br><br></font><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="5">Respectfully, Marty Port Orchard </font></p><p></p></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> <font color="#4d22b2">Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:31:31 -0700 (PDT)</font></span><font color="#4d22b2"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">From: Dennis Paulson <<span dir="ltr">dennispaulson@comcast.net</span>></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">To: Marty <<span dir="ltr">namaste@wavecable.com</span>>, <span dir="ltr">tweeters@u.washington.edu</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Subject: Re: [Tweeters] American pipit</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Message-ID: <<span dir="ltr">1557217185.376077.1694557891738@connect.xfinity.com</span>></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Merlin is a wonderful app, but it makes mistakes all too regularly, especially confusing similar species. I have never taken it out for a day without detecting mistakes such as misidentifying a bird I'm looking at or not even recording a prominent song going on.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">American Pipits have a two-noted call, not a single peep, so I wonder what else that might have been. And they are birds of wide-open country, never encountered in a wooded area and usually only vocalizing when in flight over that open country.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Dennis Paulson</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Seattle</span></font><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">On 09/12/2023 2:43 PM PDT Marty <<span dir="ltr">namaste@wavecable.com</span>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Every morning before I get up I place my phone on the window sill with the Merlin app turned on to Sound Recording, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">This morning I woke up to single note peeping I first thought was a House finch, but after listening for a few minutes, I realized it was not. I had Merlin app tuned on to sound recording and was surprised to see that as a peeping continued, the American pipit illuminated up every time.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Marty<br></blockquote><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>