[birding] Re: [mid-valley-nature:588] article on winter wrens

[Lisa Millbank]

Last year Don took a video of this pair of Winter Wrens.  The male seemed 
extremely excited about the female going inside the nest hole, and he did a 
little display that was one of the cutest things I have ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyNJ8ptXaq0

Lisa
www.neighborhood-naturalist.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Fink" <linda at fink.com>
To: <bouchdon at peak.org>
Cc: <birding at midvalleybirding.org>; <mid-valley-nature at googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [mid-valley-nature:588] article on winter wrens


> That's a good article. In my experience Winter Wrens sing loudest and 
> longest when there is some competing noise. They even try to drown out my 
> husband's chainsaw when we're clearing trails. Apparently, the loudest 
> gets the girl, so it's no wonder that little wren in Seattle was working 
> so hard to be heard over buses and voices and barking dogs, and a 
> helicopter and train and truck.
>
> Linda Fink
>
> bouchdon at peak.org wrote:
>> In the Sunday paper was fun an article from the Seattle Times featuring
>> western Winter Wrens and their songs. The article quotes bird sound 
>> expert
>> Don Kroodsma (I highly recommend his books).
>>
>> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011179036_wren25m.html
>>
>> Don Boucher,
>> Corvallis
>>
>>
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