[EBB Sightings] three sing-alikes

[EBB Sightings] three sing-alikes

Phila Rogers
Thu May 05 13:18:00 PDT 2005
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    Dear Friends:
    
    Early this showery morning I heard the first migrating western tanager =
    singing.  In the distance I could hear both a robin and a black-headed =
    grosbeak reminding me from other Mays that this is the season of the =
    three sing-alikes.  On the joyousness or ardor scale, I would have to =
    rate the grosbeak as the champ  -- so passionate that the melodious =
    phrases often seem to fall apart at the end, collapsing under the weight =
    of so much concentrated brilliance.  To me the robin song is a domestic =
    one, always cheery, reliable in its phrasing, as likely to be heard =
    along a scruffy urban street as in the garden of spacious, well-tended =
    lawns.  The tanager's song, though similar in construction, lacks a =
    certain vigor being both slower in pace and lower in tone.
    
    Flocks of both cedar waxwings and pine siskins continue to pour through =
    the neighborhood.  The chickadees are bringing their young to the =
    feeder.  A purple finch pair regularly join the house finches, lesser =
    goldfinches and an occasional American goldfinch at the niger and =
    sunflower feeders.  All the local birds appear to be undeterred by these =
    showery days, in fact, they seem to be invigorated by the rain.
    
    Phila Rogers
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