Learn 30 Spring Common Backyard Bird Songs and Calls (Central and Eastern United States)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Spring brings new birds and new songs and calls to your backyard. Learn 30 of the most common bird songs and calls that may show up in your neighborhood this spring if you live in the Central or Eastern United States.
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Baltimore Oriole song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Alan Schmierer (CC by 2.0, edited)
Black-capped Chickadee song by Jonathon Jongmsa (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Ryan Sallmann
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by N. Lewis (Public Domain, edited)
Brown-headed Cowbird song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Ryan Sallmann
Brown Thrasher song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Ryan Sallmann
Chimney Swift song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Jeff&Amy (Public Domain, edited)
Chipping Sparrow song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Ryan Sallmann
Common Yellowthroat song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Lorri Howski (Used with permission)
Dark-eyed Junco song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Ryan Sallmann
Eastern Bluebird song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Eastern Phoebe song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Eastern Meadowlark song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Ryan Sallmann
Eastern Towhee song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Ryan Sallmann
Gray Catbird song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Ryan Sallmann
Gray Catbird “meow” by Derek Sallmann
Hermit Thrush song by Doug Hynes (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by N. Lewis (Public Domain, edited)
House Wren song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Ryan Sallmann
Indigo Bunting song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by N. Lewis (Public Domain, edited)
Mourning Dove song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Northern Cardinal first song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by N. Lewis (Public Domain, edited)(Also in Backyard bird call slide)
Northern Cardinal second song by Derek Sallmann
Northern Flicker songs by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Red-winged Blackbird song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak song and call by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Photo by Ryan Sallmann
Golden-crowned Kinglet song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Scarlet Tanager song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Song Sparrow song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Tree Swallow song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Yellow-rumped Warbler song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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White-crowned Sparrow song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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White-throated Sparrow song by Jonathon Jongsma (CC by 4.0, edited)
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Blue Jay in backyard bird call slide by N. Lewis (Public Domain, edited)
American Goldfinch in backyard bird call slide by Becky Matsubara (Public Domain, edited)
Indigo Bunting in cover slide by N. Lewis (Public Domain, edited)
White-throated Sparrow in cover slide by N. Lewis (Public Domain, edited)
Eastern Towhee in cover slide by N. Lewis (Public Domain, edited)
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Thanks to you, I cannot stop hearing as chorus of "cheeseburger" in my backyard!
I hear this w a "news report/breaking bulletin" chirp.
I genuinely barely hear "cheeseburger". I hear it calling for someone named Phoebe. Like "Fee-bee-ee!"
My husband and I recently went on a crazy hunt for a kitten near a ravine, only to find a Gray Catbird looking at us 😅 Thank you for all these great mnemonic devices!
You are good people.
Mnemonic.
@@dimbopsah2066 and to think I went to school for English and Literature 😂 Thank you for the correction-- fixed it!
Oh how funny!!
I’d been trying to identify the black capped chickadee since I was a kid 🤣 I’ve been whistling back at them for over 20 years
I tryed to call falcon but I think I used the wrong species of hawk call
(Peregrine falcon call is what I used)
Cheese burgerrrrr...
I heard one at dusk: a could only peep at him once, tho. Then he flew like 300 feet in a second! Fast!
I remember hearing robins, cardinals, and chickadees since I was about 7 or 8 years old and they're such a nostalgic sound, like 8am on a summer morning, like nothing to look forward to, but all the time to play.
The robin is my 4 am company when I can't sleep.
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😂i know lol
Positive I heard one this morning.
The Robin is why I can't sleep
Mine is the Cardinal..
I finally know the culprit behind my favorite bird cry, it's the Eastern Phoebe! Thank you for uploading!
Watching at 4 AM to see who is waking me up.😂
Ditto! I just want to know whats making this wierd loud noise by my window so I can go back to sleep.
Turns out the sound was a Gecko somewhere in my house. Finally matched the sound I am freaked out! 😳
@@avahorton4977 well...that eat bugs? Lol
@@avahorton4977geckos make noise?? wtf
I did the same thing 😂
On my porch, 9 a.m., playing this on my phone as a refresher. A bright yellow oriole landed on the rail, not 4 feet away, looking puzzled. She stayed there till a white nuthatch landed on the back of my chair (cowardly compared to the red species, which habitually land on my head). My birds are brazen as heck, but they ARE fed well & I don't consume much meat. LOVE this particular video; the mnemonics help tremendously.
Wow, cardinals are the ones constantly running their beaks in my yard. Lol. Like constantly. All night even.
The white-crowned sparrow sings ‘I gotta go wee-wee now-now’. Once you hear it, you can never unhear it haha
🤣 I’m gonna listen for that next time!
black--capped chickadee will always be my favorite because it reminds me of home and waking up to warmer weather in the spring.
My husband thought bird watching was nerdy, but guess who bought binoculars to....watch birds!
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lol got him!
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Once you start you can't stop 🐦
I think we all reach this phase in life eventually.
Thanks for this!! I enjoyed it and have heard and seen many in our backyard! Live in n.w. Illinois and we are now having bluebirds for the first time in my life, and I am 80 years old!
watching this high was an amazing experience thank you bird man
The Northern Cardinal is what I've been hearing early in the morning and sometimes around 4 or 5 in the evening... Thanks
I love my sparrows - I’ve got a billion of them. I still get plenty of other varieties as well. I keep a lot of feeders and trays out around the yard so everyone can find something.
The house sparrows crack me up! Extremely resourceful! I've seen them fly off w a 3 for long x 2 inch strip of plastic for a nest, and once a whole Oreo!
They have a field day in my yard, as I'm a mass murderer (of flies). I swat them, and dinner is served.
I'm 67, I know all these indigenous birds and their calls. I treated a nighthawk and let it go. It's a cousin of the whip-poor-will.
Thank you so much! For over 20 years I have wondered what this beautiful, almost mystical sounding bird was!! As soon as you used the word "ethereal" I knew it was going to be what I was looking for! The hermit thrush! It makes the most beautiful calls in the mid to late spring. It almost seems like it is never near by, always just out of reach. I can't believe I finally found out what that beautiful bird is!!
Happy to help! You may want to check out the Wood Thrush song too, which is also very ethereal
I’m in New Jersey and I think I’ve heard most of these . Thanks for this video , very helpful!😊
Glad it was helpful!
I have red cardinals at 3am, I love their singing
I have a 2am mocking bird here in southeast texas. He’s very very cheerful. I’m not. I do love my birds. Just not at that time of night.
@@connieh9581"WTH are birds so damn happy about at 4am??"
You are delight, breath of fresh air. Some of those wonders of nature I did not hear before. Thank you so much.
I have been hearing robins singing for weeks, especially in the morning and evening hours. Evening time comes around and I start hearing that "cheer up cheer up cheerily cheerily" song on repeat. I hear it a bit in the afternoon too, but like 6-8 PM and 4-6 AM is when I hear them the most.
That checks out! They love singing early and late!
A friend and I feed the birds at the edge of an industrial park near some railroad and Metro train tracks. Some of the birds shown here are regular "clients." They rarely sing near the space where we feed them, But sometimes they will sing at a distance before showing up. We have never heard the brown thrasher sing; I didn't know it had such an enthralling song. A favorite visitor pair are blue jays, who have begun showing up since we now put raw in-shell peanuts out. Crows and grackles will also take them.
I have a brown thrasher that is nesting in my front yard. I also hear a gray catbird doing meow calls every day.
Northern DE, I’ve heard and seen white throated sparrow, house wren, chickadee, brown thrasher, Cardinal, Robin in my yard. Once a towhee. Heard the hermit thrush and flicker in the woods before! Thanks for this great list of reference!
Cardinal, Robin, Song Sparrow, most common in our backyard here in Illinois....but Junco, Chickadee Tanager, and Blackbird can be heard on occasion. The first ones up in the morning are the Sparrow and Robin and Cardinal. I listen to them when my window is open right before sun up.
This was really helpful! The added touch of you putting words to song clears things up a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
I saw my first bluebird the other day! First ever! Midwest.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 awesome!
This one was great, because I do indeed hear quite a few of these each morning! MANY Northern Cardinal calls, I'm not sure (yet) if I have one breeding pair coming around or more than that, but definitely there's at least one male-female pair that comes every day to poke around the yard. Also have two Brown Thrashers but if I can see them they're not calling, if they're calling I can't ever see them, sneaky things! But the Gray Catbird is the chattiest bird, and sassy too; I think I have a family group, though I'm not sure how "social" the birds are - but there are FIVE of them that come and forage, and they will frequently chase the squirrels away from the bird feeder, and just as frequently come to the feeder and holler if there's no seed there yet! They are quite the characters! Earlier in the spring I heard Chickadee and Eastern Phoebe, but I guess they were just passing through, because I don't hear or see them anymore. One of the neighbors has a chimney - so, every evening I get to see and somewhat hear them as they get ready to come back to their roost for the night. I'm very familiar with the Swift's calls tho, because years ago the house I was in also had a chimney, and we had Swifts, and at least one baby would mess up at fledging time and fall down into the house! But we could hear 'em always, chimneys being like they are. Wonderful video!
I wonder if you might discuss some of the twilight birds (and other critters) that are common? Sometimes I've mistaken bats for Chimney Swifts, the high pitched calls seem really similar to me, and it's not until I catch sight and see the difference in flight pattern that I correct myself. I know it's really hard to accurately photo in that dim light but even just the calls could be really fascinating, I think!
Gonna watch this video many times. Thanks!
I have 4 broods I let them nest anywhere they want. They do. So wonderful to see Moms and Dads tending the nest and feeding!
Get them a birdbath. Menard's has ceramic ones for only 50.00. Aldi has a cheaper one. In winter, they have suet they love for very cheap.
I love the rose breasted grosbeak! It has recently started visiting my backyard.
I've noticed that cardinals react very aggressively to a cardinal call over Bluetooth speaker. They show up looking for a fight!😁
Have seen and heard many of these, love the sounds of spring!
Omg thank you. For years ive wondered what I was hearing that sounded like a tropical bird. It must be the Flicker.
Ornithology of the songs, tweets, chirps, whistles, etc. is one of the things that I need to work on. I know some of the common bird calls in my area, northeast US. Thanks for this video, keep up the good work, cheers.
I enjoy listening to Bird songs. Thank you.
With mockingbirds...hard to differentiate as their ability to copy is unlimited. One mocked my microwave and phone. I fell for it.
🌸Beautiful bird chirps, thank you for sharing!🕊
🙌🏼🤗 hear a lot of these in Canada too - great recordings and TY for the fun ways to remember various calls.
Great video. I enjoy bird sounds.
We have pretty much all of them. Nice to put a sound to what bird. Thank you!
That's the fluffiest American Robins I've ever seen. The ones around me are long and sleek.
That one in the picture looked like it had its winter coat on 8)
I had a super chubby one that looked like a ball in my backyard last summer. It took over the water bowl I put out there all day long. Bathed, groomed, sat inside the bowl. So I put another one out for other birds. Then it started walking back and forth from both and tried to snuggled other birds away.
@@4rg3s now inquiring minds want to know: what if you had THREE? What's the bird bath vanishing point?
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I couldn't afford the 3rd bird bath last summer lol
I wanted to have a sand bath for birth, too. I did make a hanging bath for smaller birds.
THE SOUND DESCRIPTIONS ARE UTTERLY RIDICULOUS.🤣🤣🤣
It’ll help you remember them 🤣
@@BadgerlandBirdingi can hardly remember the lyrics to human songs let alone bird songs. lol
Maids maids maids out in your tea kettle kettle kettle lol
@@laurelfranklin4115 🤣🤣🤣
I think they’re great 🤗 and fun!
I have been hearing a very beautiful song in my garden. I couldn't see the bird but thanks to ur help I think is the Cardinal. Thanks much.
I forgot most of these over the winter, thanks for calls guys, keep it up!
Thanks ; Keep up the Recordings 2023
Love Bird song so much! Keep 'em coming!
The northern mockingbird is the most common bird here in Alabama especially during spring. I hear many of those sing.
I loved this! Thank you. We have nearly all of these birds in our wooded property.🙂
Informative and charming! Many thanks.
Thanks!
Thank you!
I recognized all of those sounds in my yard and few that were not included. Great video. TY
So helpful, thank you!!
Thanks! These are great. Several of these songs are similar to each other, and now I know I've been mistaking the Thrasher for a Catbird. In my area we think of that Red Wing Blackbird call as sounding like a police whistle.
Lovely post !Thank you so mush !
Great descriptions. Learned a few new ones.
I've only seen a couple of indigo buntings in my life. I do bird calls. They answer. Especially cardinals!
I’ve been hearing the black capped chickadee spring song a lot on Washington. Lots of robins here too.
You mean "cheeseburger birds?" As they will now forever be known...?
Mine make a special news broadcast song after the usual. They all know it. I don't know from where.
This was great! Thanks!🙂
Thank you for this. We always used to say blue jays were calling, Thief Thief.
There's a bird down the street that's VERY vocal, with an up and down and all-around sound that I just couldn't identify! I know we have Robins here most of the time (central Indiana) but you really don't see a lot of them after springtime...but yeah, finally identified that darn bird, it's a Robin! Just the trilling part, not the harsher part that you hear early in spring...so it was a challenge!
I've heard all of them.
NIce job. I have many of the birds you showcased. Especially the cat bird!
I had no idea I had so many critters that live near me❤
There's red Wing blackbirds that love the northern marshes around me but they are so gorgeous everytime I see them
I know I have heard lots of these here including the cardinal, black capped chickadee, robin, junco, the various sparrows, red winged blackbirds to name a few.
We have house wrens nesting above the window, they like to perch on the flood light and sing, I've also heard that chickadees make a hay sweety or a tea kettle,
Was driving me crazy trying to identify the bird I kept hearing in the morning! It's a black capped chickadee lol
Glad you figured it out!
Thanks for your content
I like beautiful bird
Very nicely done with excellent narration! The best ever!!!
Thanks!
I must be very unimaginative. I hear the words he says in VERY few of these bird calls
The white throated sparrow I have been looking for that answer for a few years now thank you
You’re welcome!
God bless you ! I never heard most of these birds before ! They were such a delight to listen to- can you post some bird call videos of south Florida port saint Lucie area back yard bird songs? Would love to hear
This is cool, thanks. My springtime chickadees say "Heeeey, sweetie!" :)
I luv fhe black capped chicadee
Central BC, Canada here. My wife and I hear a bird (usually very early spring ... but not every year) that we jokingly call the Swedish bird. It goes something like this: Hurdy Verdy Gurdy .................................Hurdy Verdy Gurdy 😄 Have listened to many BC song bird sounds with no luck.
And then in summer at night there is what we call the Monkey Owl - it sounds like an aggravated monkey , and then it ends in a soft, drawn out, owl "Whooooo" It's almost like some misplaced monkey is trying to convince us that they are actually an owl and so there is no need to investigate further. 😁
I’m betting your “monkey owl” is a barred owl
@@BadgerlandBirding Just listened to that after your suggestion; that is very close - so I think you are right - thanks!
From what I am learning, not all birds of the same species do the EXACT same sound, and so I think the one around here has thrown in another sharper note or something.
Wow..
I wanna it.. 😅
Have mourning doves outside your bedroom window. Wild.
Thank you! I've been trying to figure out what makes that distinctive sound I kept hearing. It was the Brown Headed Cowbird "Bubble Z" but it's much prettier sounding in person.
The golden crowned kinglet has a song too, it is a couple high notes that then turns into a fast high pitched jumble
I live near some railroad tracks next to an alley. I've heard Gray Catbirds walking down that road
Eastern Towhee is definitely saying, "Flav-Or-FLAV!" [airhorn]
Had a flicker that made a sound that sounded similar to a seagull so if you hear a seagull sound but it's closer sounding it might be a flicker
TPB reference for the win! 😅
Eastern Towhee sounds kore like the "Dun, dun. DUUUUUN!" sound
That’s more so Yellow-headed Blackbird
So many of these are in my yard
I wish I could identify one in my backyard I always hear. Sounds like “oowee oowee Knuk knuk knuk”
Wow, I was coming back to add a *caveat* to my comment and it was already blessed with a ❤! Thx! So, new comment on caution: the birds & other wildlife all act as trusting as chickadees, which is really touching. They even...for the most part...trust my cat companion. (She has wild rabbits & squirrels she's befriended). But all the bright colors & innocence have an enormous down side: predators. I frequently wake up to Ruddy, the red-tailed hawk, on my porch railing. I've spotted kestrels on the shepard's crook that holds 2 of my feeders. There's even talon marks from a Bald Eagle (Ralph or Gerda, a pair I'm very familiar with, but not sure which...genders look similar. I name EVERYONE. Gives them significance, to me anyway) on my front door surrounding the static-cling cat I placed there to dissuade birds from crashing there. Ironic, isn't it? But there's the down side, just saying.
@@PartlySunny74 Hey, since I just picked up my phone, saw your comment and user name, I gotta ask: cardinals have always been precious to me (there's even one illustrated on my mom's gravestone). Anyway, I'm so heartbroken about this (previously) gorgeous male cardinal who visits my feeders daily. He has bird mange. A bad, BAD case of it. He no longer has his crest & his head resembles a buzzard's. Is there anything AT ALL that I can do for him? (His mate remains unscathed, for now). IDK what to do & it's eating up my insides...
@@PartlySunny74 Thx for responding. Unfortunately, it's those orange arachnids that eat keratin. I'm quite familiar with ornithology, and have had many, many avian companions. But the reason I'm sure of this is because last year, a bluejay had these and clearly sought my help. Nothing I could do for her, because my daughter...don't ask why...gets consistently bit by the things. I had to avoid the poor bird...They jumped onto me unnoticed and then her. They're practically microscopic, but she showed me (after smashing several on her skin) what one looked like. (The only treatment I found wouldn't ship from Australia. I'm in the US.) Thx again.
I work on a farm and every time I hear a bird chirp like a water drop, then I know it is a brown-headed cowbird!
only got the towhee, and chickadees. Plenty of others, peewees, flycatchers, titmouse, carolina wren, at least 2 different woodpeckers, I think dawny, and the pileated, great horned owl, blue jays, craws and several large birds, probably hawks. Forgot some I am sure. Middle GA.
What was the call in the background of the hermit thrush? The loud one close to the beginning
Sounds like a Carolina Wren
I've watched both of your videos and still haven't heard one that sounds like a bird in my yard. I live in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia and we have some species of bird that is a talker. It sounds like they're repeating a word over and over. For quite a while we had a bird that said, "KEIF-er, KEIF-er." Now there's one that says, "tri-nit-Y, tri-nit-Y." I haven't been able to spot it but I love hearing it talk!
My guess would be Alder Flycatcher and Carolina Wren respectively
I have been trying to figure out this bird call we hear constantly here in SW Florida. It sounds exactly like the Wakanda chant "yibambe." Unfortunately, this video didn't identify it (it did help identify some other bird calls). Does anyone have any idea what it might be?
Nuthatches and titmouse. Also, very vocal.
Chipping Sparrow: Trill
Dark-eyed Junco: Trill?
Pine Warbler: Trill?!
I love how so many of us here apparently came to this video after hearing a cardinal. Think it's because they're so dang loud
Oh, the house wren may be that plucky little bird that sings 'all day,' not the warbling virio (vario?). And the northern flicker sounds like a monkey (rain forest). Thanks for the sounds of birds I cannot see. The wood thrush is my favorite, but the hermit thrush is also nice.
Can someone please tell me if the sound at 8:50-8:51 is really from tree swallows? Or is it a background noise from another bird? I am actually looking for a specific bird sound that I have loved hearing for a while now and I think it's this one, but I searched for tree swallows and haven’t heard the same sound again.
Sounds like there is a Henslow’s Sparrow singing in the background. Could that be it?
@@BadgerlandBirding thanks for the response! I’ll try finding it out.
@@BadgerlandBirdingthere is a melodic whistle during the timestamp. I heard the henslows sparrow before the sound
There were multiple moments where I didnt know if it the was bird in the video or the birds outside making the calls, so I had to keep pausing to double check 😅
I also have one bird I'm still trying to figure out that's by my house, I never see it, but it always wakes me up at 5am >:T
After a solid 15 minutes, I finally found the bird!
It was a Palm Warbler!
Not a bird in this video but they migrate to the Midwest in the spring and up to Canada by summer