S6E19 - Dawn Hike at Deer Lick Run, Part 3 (Common Yellowthroat)

[00:00:39] The common Yellow Throat is a loud and lively warabler found along the edges of marshes and wetlands. It is one of the few warablers found nearly everywhere across North America every summer.

[00:00:57] The males of the species are known for the broad black masks that contrast with their bright yellow throat. And they're unmistakable Wichita, Wichita, Wichita Song. My name is Rob and this is Songbirding.

[00:02:13] That's a white-tailed deer call kind of. Kind of a snorting sound they make, scare off predators. And other deer that they don't want around them. Seeing a tiny bird. I think there's a black cap chicken eater in here.

[00:02:45] One of the hemlocks. Just a few... oh, black-footed green warabler. Just a few hemlocks in here along the edge. Otherwise, all deciduous. There's a black-footed green warabler and now a black-capped chickadee.

[00:03:57] Oh, Bluejay. So I forgot to start my e-bird checklist. Let's go do a quick look through here. Oh, that's a pretty yellow throat. It's coming from the wetland. And what I predicted. Let's go see if we can hear that a little closer up. There we go.

[00:05:13] So I've heard pilliated woodpeck green in about four different directions so I'm putting that on the e-bird list. I've seen one Northern flicker. I've heard several blue-headed verias. So I'll put like four for now, I think. More red-eyed verias than I can count so I'm going to estimate 20.

[00:05:54] Five blue-jays, a crow. About eight black-capped chickadees. Three white breastnut hatch. Three winter ran. One wood thrush. Four American robins. Three cedar wax wings. That's six dark-eyed junco so far. One song sparrow. Oh, cold pinch going over here. Blue-jays making a lot of fun sounds.

[00:07:34] Got a couple black-footed green warbler. Scarlet tannager early on. I had Northern cardinal at the campsite. Of course this yellow throat. About three black-thor blue warblers. Oh there's two common yellow throats here.

[00:08:08] I still have to stand here long enough. And a hermit thrush. I missed that on the list. And the nougat bunting. Yellow throats. The witcha-tah, witcha-tah, witcha-tah. Right there. There's two of them at least.

[00:09:32] Song sparrow song isn't too different here. It hearts content it was quite different. At least in my ears. Oh I missed black-burnion warbler on my list. That's another one. And magnolia. There's like three of them. Barely audible but there's a black and white warbler in the distance.

[00:12:20] American Robin. I heard a brand creeper song. Again kind of distant. Some chickadees. Very active nut hatches here. So that's quite a few I think black-footed green warblers or black-footed blue. Doing just calls. All right, gonna continue walking back here.

[00:14:07] Nougat bunting. This is an abbreviated one but it's an indigo bunting song. And there's American Robin here as well. And black-hip chickadees.

[00:16:49] So this is the song that goes fire fire where where you're here put it up put it out but it's an abbreviated version. More of the fire fire and something else I don't know. Fire fire chip chip brie. I'm not sure what's doing the buzzing.

[00:18:32] Might be a dark eyed junco. Gonna check with Merlin see if I'm right. Yep, this dark eyed junco. Very similar in quality to the Ruffwing Swallow. Northern Ruffwing Swallow. Their bleeding call is kind of like this. Oh, Ovenbird. So one of the many sounds of dark eyed

[00:19:31] junco. It's kind of like the trail just compressed down to a really fast song and repeated. Basically so fast you can't really hear the trail anymore. This sounds like a blur. Hearing a distant morning dove. Black-Hip Chickadee. Morning dove.

[00:21:55] It's a distant dark eyed junco. I thought I heard a brief hoot there. I'm not sure. Last night I had a huge bellowing hoot in the campground out of the bar dowel.

[00:22:46] Unfortunately recorder wasn't on when it did it but I turned it on after in case it did it again. I don't think it ever did. At least if it did I never heard it.

[00:23:07] Winter Rinn. I'm back at my recorder now. I'm gonna pick that up but I'll share along with this recording some interesting soundscapes from it. Winter Rinn. Songbirding. The Allegheny National Forest is a songbirding studios production and was recorded,

[00:24:40] engineered, narrated and created by me Rob Porter with cover art and logo design by Lauren Hilton and Creative Commons Music from Chase and Shaw.