Date: 10/21/25 9:42 am From: <tinocast......> <tinocastillo4254...> Subject: [MBBIRDS] (ID Help) Weird singing warbler at Schwan Lake, Santa Cruz
Howdy
I just got inducted into this email group last night, but I have been pondering this odd occurrence from last Saturday, where I was at Schwan Lake and heard a warbler singing loud and proud in the middle of the day. It didn't really sound like anything I had heard before, but I assumed that it was nothing much--perhaps a wayward yewa or yrwa with an aberrant song--and thus I never made an effort to gain visual. However, I managed to get a recording of it which is on this checklist <https://ebird.org/checklist/S280224978>. My friend, who is somehow a walking phone directory for a bunch of birding people sent it to a few more-than-qualified individuals, who all had differing opinions (ranging from no clue to mawa to howa to cswa). When I looked through all the parulid spectrograms I could find, howa seemed most similar, but warbler songs are not really my specialty. I would've gone Sunday, but I had a pelagic so instead I went back yesterday to try and refind it and no dice, so it's probably gone by now but maybe it just didn't want to sing that day? No clue but would appreciate any input on this thing.
