S6E13 - Evening Climb along Deer Lick Run, Part 1 (Dark-eyed Junco)

[00:00:00] Songbirding-by-ear Podcast, Rob Porter, Rob Porter, Rob Porter, Rob Porter

[00:00:29] The Dark Eye Junco is one of the most common birds of North America,

[00:00:33] and encompasses a wide variety of subspecies of varying plumages.

[00:00:40] In Eastern North America, we mostly see the slate-colored Junco,

[00:00:45] whose males have a mostly slady gray body with a white underbelly.

[00:00:52] They are a common feeder bird anywhere they are found,

[00:00:55] preferring to feed from the ground or on tray feeders.

[00:01:01] Their song is a one-to-two-second long trill,

[00:01:05] which can vary from pleasant to mechanical sounding.

[00:01:11] In breeding season, they're typically found in forests across North America.

[00:01:16] Note however, there are a number of other species that have similar trill songs,

[00:01:22] and you may need to use other means to confirm the identification of this species.

[00:01:41] My name is Rob, and this is Songbirding.

[00:01:52] So I'm in Allegheny, National Forest, with a trill, one of two that lead from the campsite.

[00:02:19] I've been staying at, and didn't actually notice that when I checked in.

[00:02:24] But today, when looking around, I found them.

[00:02:29] So this one's a bit of an uphill hike, unfortunately.

[00:02:34] So I've done a lot of the uphill first before hitting record.

[00:02:49] Lots of birds here, they're just very quiet.

[00:03:20] Cool.

[00:03:31] That sounds like a winter rain.

[00:03:36] Bit of schooling from winter rain.

[00:03:49] So I'll be ahead with some hammer thrush.

[00:04:20] So this trail just keeps going uphill.

[00:04:22] I think I'm at the top, and it keeps going.

[00:04:26] So this trail just keeps going uphill.

[00:04:30] I think I'm at the top, and it keeps going.

[00:04:35] Just not as steep anymore.

[00:05:56] And just as I get closer, it stops singing.

[00:06:02] I think it was pretty close to the road so it didn't like not close I'm getting.

[00:06:09] Yeah, it's moved a little bit, a little bit further away.

[00:06:25] Not very much though.

[00:07:55] Here in the bike 30.

[00:08:25] more of a blur.

[00:08:27] We can call the no-song.

[00:08:42] I think we have a turkey chunk going ahead.

[00:08:55] The beginning to think this mix of hermitthrush and turkey junko is kind of a signature sound of ala gheni.

[00:09:25] I think there's a distant withrush here.

[00:09:55] Yeah, actually it's not all that distant.

[00:09:59] It's just further than hermitthrush.

[00:10:05] That was interesting.

[00:10:26] I don't know if there's a case of ovenbird mimicry.

[00:10:32] If something was imitating ovenbird or ovenbird was imitating something.

[00:10:55] I said down recorder for that turkey junko.

[00:11:25] Stop singing right after I said the recorder down.

[00:11:55] Let's see if her neck is too easy.

[00:12:07] And small breeze.

[00:13:07] Red-aft.

[00:13:26] I found a red-aft.

[00:13:32] One of the life stages of a newt.

[00:13:38] Even though they're called red, they are actually orange.

[00:13:49] You don't see them out that much.

[00:13:53] Usually I have to be turning rocks over.

[00:13:58] Last time I saw one, the Dundas Valley, I think, 2012-2013.

[00:14:07] Maybe even 2011.

[00:14:11] Somewhere between 8-12 years ago.

[00:14:17] I'm going to be looking at the ground the whole time.

[00:14:32] Let's see if there's more of these.

[00:14:51] It's a very healthy population of hermitthrush in here.

[00:15:02] Oh, there we go.

[00:15:21] I don't know if this one's a red-aft stage though.

[00:15:27] It's just a little darker.

[00:15:33] He doesn't have much to say though, I guess.

[00:15:40] I wonder how much elevation this is.

[00:15:47] It depends on your definition of mountain.

[00:15:52] The closest thing to a mountain I've hiked up and wild.

[00:15:58] Going back down here is going to be pretty easy though.

[00:16:06] That's definitely not enough of an elevation climb.

[00:16:10] I need to feel like any kind of altitude sickness.

[00:16:15] Oh, it's not that bad.

[00:16:22] Wow, really just keep going uphill.

[00:17:10] Let's stand and listen here for a little bit.

[00:22:11] There we go.

[00:22:18] There we go.

[00:22:27] This is a nice close-up on a dark-eyed junko.

[00:25:18] The first is a song-burting studio's production and was recorded, engineered, narrated and created by me, Rob Porter.

[00:25:27] The first is a song by Laura Nilton, and Creative Commons Music from Jason Shaw.

[00:25:57] The second is a song by Laura Nilton, and the second is a song by Laura Nilton, and the second is a song by Laura Nilton.

[00:26:27] The first is a song by Laura Nilton, and the second is a song by Laura Nilton, and the third is a song by Laura Nilton.

[00:28:27] The first is a song by Laura Nilton.