Date: 4/19/26 6:24 am From: Gary Bletsch via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Chippies
Dear Tweeters,
Thanks to Carol Riddell for bringing up an interesting topic.
At Ship Harbor, AKA Anacortes Ferry Terminal, I had an interesting experience that always comes to mind when arises the matter of Chipping Sparrow songs. Here is what I wrote in my field notes for that day, 19 May 2021.
I thought I heard a Chipping Sparrow singing, so I played a recording of a Chipping Sparrow song. The junco came right over to me, then started singing. I think that the birds have the same trouble that I have, when it comes to distinguishing these two songs.
Well, things could be even more interesting, or confusing. Where I now live in Western New York, it is not unusual to find a Chipping Sparrow, a Swamp Sparrow, a Junco, and a Pine Warbler, all singing simultaneously in the same patch, where the habitats meet!
Yours truly,
Gary Bletsch
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