tbrownell@lafite.dec.com (Ignem Mittere In Terrum) (06/08/88)
>Although it's hard to tell without knowing inflection, rythym, etc. (hell, it's >hard to tell if you _hear_ the thing), the song described as a yellow warbler >sounds to me more like a chestnut-sided. Although I am not sure of their >range outside the east here, they usually do not sing from the tops of tall >trees. Nor do yellow warblers. How about tennesee? >By the way, it seems that the more warbler songs I learn, the less I know. -- >========================================================================= >Greg Pasquariello AT&T Product Integration Center >ihnp4!picuxa!gp 299 Jefferson Rd, Parsippany, NJ 07054 >========================================================================= My experience with the both of them has been quite contrary recently. Yellows seem to be singing from my tall trees and Tennessees are trilling from the bushes. Having lived in the Fort, I would have to say you are hearing a Yellow. They are common, whereas the Tennessee is usually only encountered in the fall, and then rarely. Besides, to my ear the "song" of the Tennessee sounds more like an explosion than music Terry Brownell Millbury, Massachusetts