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Post by david on Apr 6, 2024 20:22:34 GMT -5
What a treat. I pulled into my driveway after work, hopped out, and as I was grabbing my backpack from the back door of the jeep I heard it. I grabbed my phone and my Merlin app and...sure enough. Indiana's most amazing songbird. A brown thrasher. I stood in my driveway recording the songs as I watched the treeline across the street. After a few minutes I decided why not try to get closer. I don't know how timid brown thrashers are, but I started walking toward the distant trees. The song continued. I got still closer and about 50-60 feet away I caught sight of the bird. I still kept walking. Finally I ended up standing just below the bird. It kept on singing. I stood there watching and listening for more than five minutes. I finally walked back home. The bird stayed. (lousy phone photos) That is pretty cool!. I found a website with Brown Thrasher songs. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown_Thrasher/soundsIt allows you to play five of them, but says the bird has 1,100 songs. I know that four of them made my son's Vizsla crazy.
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Post by epaul on Apr 6, 2024 21:14:48 GMT -5
Brown Thrashers are closely related to Mockingbirds and Gray Catbirds (same family:Mimidae). And one of the tells is the complex song. The brown thrasher and the meadowlark are my two favorite songsters.
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Post by epaul on Apr 6, 2024 22:12:52 GMT -5
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