Date: 4/13/26 9:33 am From: Andrew Whitacre <akwhitacre...> Subject: Re: [Arlington Birds] Possible Nelson's Sparrow?
Hi Betty! Sounds like a song sparrow. I can hear where the PUC is getting
tripped up, by the trill at 2.3 secs. As much as I've enjoyed my PUC, I
wish I could tell it my habitat, ha. I'll get Nelson's sparrows
occasionally too, and nightly common loons that are actually firetrucks.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 12:12 PM Betty Widerski <bwiderski.resist...>
wrote:
> I just got a Birdweather PUC (station # PUC-25338 if anyone else has one)
> and have been testing it in my E. Arlington yard. Aside from the hundreds
> of House Sparrow IDs (!) this morning it claims to have ID'd a Nelson's
> Sparrow with 95% confidence. I'm taking its IDs with a large grain of salt,
> but I downloaded this one, looked at the spectrogram, and compared it to
> East Coastal Nelson's Sparrows in Macauley. It's not *quite* but very
> close. Looking for other opinions, as eBird has it as only a really
> infrequent Fall visitor.
>
> PUC spectrogram:
> [image: image.png]
>
> Macauley ML163476:
> [image: image.png]
>
> Macauley audio: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/163476 >
> My audio:
>
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