[birding] Re: [mid-valley-nature:589] article on winter wrens

[Linda Fink]

What a wonderful video! Thanks for sharing.

Lisa Millbank wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> http://lindafink.blogspot.com/
>>
>>