S6E12 - Introduction to Hickory Creek, Part 2

[00:00:00] Now I'm at Hickory Creek Wilderness Area officially.

[00:00:12] If I put a green marker.

[00:00:42] My name is Rob and this is Songbirding.

[00:01:12] What's this?

[00:01:26] It's a young bird of some kind.

[00:01:34] What's that?

[00:01:46] That's a mellow belly, it's up suckers here.

[00:01:53] At least a couple of them.

[00:02:01] Three maybe four now.

[00:02:32] And you're chasing each other around in here.

[00:02:46] Well, someone's drumming.

[00:02:54] And maybe a sap sucker.

[00:03:00] So a lot of vocalizing chipmunks right now.

[00:03:08] These sharp ticks tick tick tick tick tick tick.

[00:03:16] And there's some drumming from sap suckers and Downeywood Pecker too.

[00:03:27] It's very verio vocalizing as well.

[00:03:46] There's a mewing of another sap sucker.

[00:03:52] And maybe I've been an accating fly catcher call a mature.

[00:04:08] Something made a call similar to one.

[00:04:14] It may have just been the verio doing a memichry.

[00:04:21] So I don't see the rain out of the town here.

[00:04:37] Oh, I just heard a rave in behind me.

[00:05:38] I'm going to have to go back to the town.

[00:05:44] I'm going to have to go back to the town.

[00:05:51] I'm going to have to go back to the town.

[00:05:58] So one of the things that can help a lot when learning birds is learning what isn't a bird.

[00:06:17] This is a chipmunk.

[00:06:24] It sounds like some kind of chip calls.

[00:06:31] If you listen carefully, it's kind of a quality to it as well.

[00:06:38] But of a knocking.

[00:06:41] It just makes that sound independently as well too.

[00:06:55] This is specifically Eastern chipmunk, but there are a lot of chipmunk species in the west as well.

[00:07:03] In fact, there are too many hard to keep track of.

[00:07:17] Oh, black-cap chickadee.

[00:07:24] More chipmunks.

[00:07:34] And there's also squirrels that focalize as well.

[00:07:40] It's time to come across any today, but if you've listened to many past episodes, I'm sure you've heard many squirrels.

[00:07:51] Especially red squirrels, which love to get angry at every potential predator.

[00:07:58] They like the scoob.

[00:09:51] Things with chipmunk calls from a scarlet teenager.

[00:10:52] Sounds like a chipmunk.

[00:10:58] This one's a chipmunk.

[00:11:05] And this is the call, not the song.

[00:11:12] It's not super loud, but it is very distinct and it can stand out easily.

[00:11:21] And that unidentified bird song you had earlier.

[00:11:24] I suspect some are tangent or had elements of this in it, which being a related bird I figured might be present.

[00:11:35] But again, even Marlon wasn't sure.

[00:11:42] I've always found this call interesting because to some species, this could be a song.

[00:12:12] There are warblers that have similarly short and succinct songs.

[00:12:43] I'm almost doing tick without the bird.

[00:12:49] Now it's down the bear.

[00:12:56] Could be male, female.

[00:13:02] I don't know if young would be old enough to focalize like this.

[00:13:13] Could be males on different territories too, just communicating their borders.

[00:13:19] Not sure.

[00:13:26] The first hander is coming down a little lower.

[00:13:33] It's a little louder now.

[00:13:42] I think it's finding like that.

[00:14:11] And afternoon recording still worth it.

[00:14:16] You don't get as much, but what I do get is you can get isolated examples of species that might be overlapped in morning recordings.

[00:15:12] I'm not sure if I can get out of here.

[00:15:18] But I'm not sure if I can get out of here.

[00:15:25] I'm not sure if I can get out of here.

[00:15:32] I'm not sure if I can get out of here.

[00:16:02] I'm not sure if I can get out of here.

[00:16:32] I'm not sure if I can get out of here.

[00:17:03] What was that?

[00:17:09] It might be a red shoulder lock in here.

[00:17:20] Oh, there's a junko.

[00:17:33] That rattle call.

[00:17:38] I won't be long until these videos fall silent.

[00:17:55] We've got a few more weeks.

[00:18:25] These are red eyed virions.

[00:18:32] For me, they're kind of the baseline virio of the first one I'd got to know.

[00:18:42] Well, it's a downy woodpecker.

[00:18:49] But as the most frequent focalizer of the virios, it's kind of easy to think of red eyed as kind of a baseline virio to judge all other virios from.

[00:19:06] It comes to song.

[00:19:12] The blue eyed bean sweeter.

[00:19:17] Philadelphia, I've only encountered a couple times and I know they can overlap a bit in song with red eyed.

[00:19:26] I'm not really having it though.

[00:19:34] And then...

[00:19:39] Oh, it's interesting.

[00:19:44] I don't know what that is.

[00:19:49] First I thought maybe Whipper will but that's the runtime of day.

[00:19:57] Not exactly the right town.

[00:20:04] Could be another hawk species.

[00:20:57] Well, whatever that bird was, not hearing it anymore.

[00:21:27] It's really nice how loud the red eyed virions aren't here.

[00:21:42] It's kind of like an auditorium.

[00:21:52] Because in all directions I can just see forest, nothing else.

[00:22:01] Canopy isn't all encompassing here but it covers enough for it to be cool in here.

[00:22:22] Do here some blue jays.

[00:22:43] Being very quiet.

[00:22:50] Oh, saw a tiny shrew running through the leaves.

[00:23:08] It saw me though.

[00:23:14] Since there's so many virions in here, let's look at the eabird list right now.

[00:23:45] So the yellow-billy sap sucker, there was at least four.

[00:23:56] There's one red-billy woodpecker on point.

[00:23:58] A couple downy woodpeckers.

[00:24:03] A couple eastern woodblees.

[00:24:07] So to say you can't even fly catchers possible here, I just don't know the task what that was that I heard though.

[00:24:18] Lots of red eyed virions, a couple blue jays, a crow or even, couple blue-headed virions, some black-cap chickadees.

[00:24:34] White-brest in the hatch.

[00:24:41] There were some cedar waxlings at one point.

[00:24:48] At least one darker jenko.

[00:24:55] A couple black-footed blue-water-plers.

[00:25:19] A couple of black-footed green-warplers.

[00:25:49] I think I forgot to mention earlier, you're also yellow-throated virion.

[00:26:18] It has kind of this virio song, but it sounds like a scarlet tannage or singing it.

[00:26:27] If you can imagine that, you can basically think of what you can imagine in your head what a yellow-throated virio sounds like when you're hearing this.

[00:26:36] And you think about the scarlet tannage or song.

[00:26:40] That sore-throated robin song.

[00:26:44] Warbling virio, of course, they don't have the same kind of song.

[00:26:49] At all, they wereble.

[00:26:51] And white eyed virio, I've not really encountered much.

[00:27:03] It's not really in my head right now what that sounds like but I'm pretty sure they're not like the others either.

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