S6E23 - The Timberdoodle Flats, Part 2 (Eastern Towhee)

[00:00:17] [SPEAKER_00]: The Eastern Towhee is a very big sparrow.

[00:00:29] [SPEAKER_00]: The male plumage is mostly black, with a rufous orange color on its flanks and a white chest.

[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_00]: The species also has one of the most famous birdsong mnemonics.

[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Drink Your Tea.

[00:00:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Drink Your Tea.

[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_00]: My name is Rob, and this is Songbirding.

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I think there's an Eastern Towhee.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Some crows in the distance.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Yep, let's go to see the Towhee.

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the Drink Your Tea song from Eastern Towhee.

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_01]: There might be a Chestnut-side Warbler up here.

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_01]: That was the Eastern Chipmunk.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Eastern Towhee.

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Drink Your Tea.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_01]: It's more of an open prairie here.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Seeing some prairie sunflowers.

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Chestnut-side Warbler.

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And the Eastern Towhee.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_01]: And the Blue-headed Virial.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_01]: So it's an interpretive sign here that said,

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_01]: a mnemonic for Blue-headed Virial is Chewie.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Chewie and Cheerio.

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_01]: That sounds about right.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's just an American crow here.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Chestnut-side Warbler.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, House Rain.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's see if we hear that again.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Is the Chestnut-side Warbler again?

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll wait here for a little bit.

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Listen to this one.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, couple House Friends.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Please, please, please to meet you.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a mnemonic for Chestnut-side Warbler.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Very similar to one of the Yellow Warbler songs.

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, there's the House Friend.

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Kind of a Warbler-y song.

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And a Chewie from the Eastern Towhee.

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Some people will say it's just basically the name,

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Chewie.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Drink your tea again from the Eastern Towhee.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Chestnut-side Warbler again in the distance.

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, just had a hummingbird fly by.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Wasn't close enough to be audible.

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully it'll come back again soon.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_01]: I have gotten recordings of them in the past.

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_01]: There is sounds they do make.

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Beyond just the humming sound.

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_01]: There are these kind of little insect-like noises they can make.

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_01]: A little bit of wind coming in.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_01]: It might be expecting rain soon, so...

[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I should keep going.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Make sure I'm not stuck out here in the rain.

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_01]: American Crows.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Coming up on some Black Cap Chickadees.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Little bit of whistling.

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Whistling song.

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Looking at a hooded Warbler, I think.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Yep, two of them. Two young ones.

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Young ones are females.

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_01]: They're not saying much.

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_01]: They're just kind of checking me out.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Seemed to have full tails, so probably females.

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_01]: The other one could have been young ones.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_01]: There are two.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_01]: I just took a quick look at some photos of juvenile and female.

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Definitely one female, the other may have been juvenile.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_01]: One of the hooded Warblers ticking at me.

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_01]: There's another Chestnut-side Warbler here.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm being as clean of a song as usual.

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe due to the traffic here, I don't know.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_01]: There's actually almost no traffic when I first pulled in here, but...

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_01]: there's around 9.30pm.

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Now by 10.30pm, there's a lot of traffic.

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure that could be Magnolia Warbler

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_01]: or Chestnut-side it.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Or there could be both here.

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Alright.

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna keep on walking here.

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_01]: There's another Chestnut-side Warbler.

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I've gotten back to the Bluebird Trail

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_01]: to retrieve a recorder.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_01]: So, if there's anything interesting in that,

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I might share it with this recording.

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Lots of red-eyed verios in the background.

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_01]: This is a please, please, please to meet you.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes an extra thing at the end.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Please, please, please...

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_01]: to meet, to meet, to meet you.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Like that.

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Here's some Cedar wax wings in the distance.

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_01]: So I forgot to start an e-bird lesson.

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's start that now.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_01]: So there hasn't been any docks.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_01]: No turkey or grass, pheasant or anything like that.

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_01]: There hasn't been a couple morning doves.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Just heard a distant Black-throated Blue-Warbler.

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_01]: That's new.

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_01]: There was a Ruby-throated hummingbird.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_01]: No herons.

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_01]: No turkey vultures.

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_01]: There was one broad-winged hawk.

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_01]: No sap-suckers.

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_01]: There was one Downy wood-packer.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_01]: No Eastern wood-pweas. Interesting.

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_01]: No Phoebe's.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_01]: No Grey-crested flycatchers.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_01]: There was a couple Blue-headed verios.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of red-eyed verios.

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just going to go with a dozen.

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to put in five Blue-Jays.

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_01]: About three crows as minimum.

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_01]: About ten Black-capped chickadees.

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_01]: White-brass nut hatch.

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_01]: At least three house-runs.

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_01]: About four hermit-thrush.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Two American robin.

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Two Cedar wax wings.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_01]: At least one American gold vinch.

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Three dark-eyed juncoe.

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_01]: One Eastern tohi.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Two black-and-white warblers.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Two common yellow-throat.

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_01]: I think three hooded warblers total.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Two Magnolia warblers.

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Four chestnut-sided warblers.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_01]: One Black-throated blue.

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_01]: About three Black-throated green warblers.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Northern cardinal, there was one.

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Indigo bunting, there was one.

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I think there's 26 species here.

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Not too bad.

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, another chestnut-sided warbler.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Behind me now.

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Cedar wax wing overhead.

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Out of that or that chestnut-sided warbler moved.

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_01]: There we go.

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Alright, I'm going to take the last part of the loop

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_01]: of the Bluebird Trail here.

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_01]: The part that I haven't walked yet.

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Back to the parking lot.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's what I thought.

[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_01]: A hooded warbler.

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_01]: There's one singing.

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to wait until his truck passes.

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe get some clean listen to it.

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a wheat-to-weet-toe-tea.

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's this.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Indigo bunting kind of flying and singing pieces of its song.

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I do that sometimes.

[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that I've ever recorded it doing it,

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_01]: but I've seen it before.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Alright, so we're approaching late morning now.

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_01]: 11 p.m.

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Birds are getting a bit quieter.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Plus maybe rain coming, we'll see.

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_01]: So, I'll attach to this recording anything interesting

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_01]: that you have captured in the stationary recorder

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_01]: in September.

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll take that back to the next item.

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we got more of that chest outside of Warbler

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_01]: or maybe something else.

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Songbirding, the Allegheny National Forest,

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