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    Quote Originally Posted by ChickNorris View Post
    Ive been listening to a bird call for over an hour that I've never heard before. Its complex & really, really lovely & almost hauntingly beautiful. I wish I could see who was making it because I'm not sure I could accurately describe it & my phone isn't recording it either.

    Oddly, I don't hear my resident Robin which is unusual too.

    [Edit] If I were to try to reproduce it, I'm going to need a Theremin.

    To learn bird songs you have to pursue the bird until you see it singing. Get it in your binoculars. Once you identify the bird you will know it's song wherever you go. In identifying them it's important to know what's in your region and habitat. Most people know more birds by sight and sound than they realize. It's fun to be able to ID birds by sound alone.

    It's getting a little late for migrants so your bird is likely a local breeder. Xeno-canto is a good resource for recorded bird songs.

    Here's some for the Hermit Thrush, a mountain bird closely related to American Robin, and one of the most beautiful, haunting songs in North America:
    Hermit Thrush

    Two other birds have melodious songs very similar to robin, the Black-headed Grosbeak and the Western Tanager:
    Black-headed Grosbeak
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    10m or so before the mystery song ended, the Robin sang. She must have been as taken with it as I.

    Looked for that bird for 45m. No idea where it was perched. I hope it returns tomorrow because I'd really like to know. Never heard anything like it in all my time on the front range & I'd like to think I've been paying attention.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChickNorris View Post
    Also wondering where my hummingbirds are. Thought I heard them twice a couple weeks back & now nothing. Usually have more than one feeder going by now & I'm unsure the one I have up has been visited.
    We have at least 3-4 hummingbird families visiting the feeders. Black chins & broadtails, who don't get along too well with each other, especially around the feeders. Quail sound off every now and then. Those fu^&*( ravens will not shut up. Getting one of the young ones to fly. Who for some reason has decided he'd rather be a pedestrian
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChickNorris View Post
    Also wondering where my hummingbirds are. Thought I heard them twice a couple weeks back & now nothing. Usually have more than one feeder going by now & I'm unsure the one I have up has been visited.
    Two-three weeks ago some were still migrating north. You might have a small population of Black-chinned in the city of Denver now but I don't have a good handle on that. Beginning around July 4-12, we'll begin seeing southbound migrant hummingbirds so that's a good time to put out more feeders and keep them fresh.

    At the Palisade farm now I have 8 feeders out and am feeding mostly male Black-chinned. The females are more dispersed and staying close to their nests. Here, they have 2-3 broods.

    At the cabin north of Ward we're now feeding ~1.5 gallons of sugar water a day. The next door neighbors are feeding an equal amount, so that's about 3000 hummingbirds daily. All Broad-tailed at this time.

    At the peak of season (July 25-Aug 5) when the migrant Rufous and Calliope move through and the juvenile Broad-tailed show up to feeders, we feed about 10-15 gallons of sugar water daily depending on the weather. Figure about 1000 birds per gallon per day. That's about 12,000+ individual birds feeding here daily.

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    I change & clean the feeders every other day.

    Hope my mystery bird sings again in the morning. Nothing tonight but Robins & Crows.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hummer View Post
    Two-three weeks ago some were still migrating north. You might have a small population of Black-chinned in the city of Denver now but I don't have a good handle on that. Beginning around July 4-12, we'll begin seeing southbound migrant hummingbirds so that's a good time to put out more feeders and keep them fresh.

    At the Palisade farm now I have 8 feeders out and am feeding mostly male Black-chinned. The females are more dispersed and staying close to their nests. Here, they have 2-3 broods.

    At the cabin north of Ward we're now feeding ~1.5 gallons of sugar water a day. The next door neighbors are feeding an equal amount, so that's about 3000 hummingbirds daily. All Broad-tailed at this time.

    At the peak of season (July 25-Aug 5) when the migrant Rufous and Calliope move through and the juvenile Broad-tailed show up to feeders, we feed about 10-15 gallons of sugar water daily depending on the weather. Figure about 1000 birds per gallon per day. That's about 12,000+ individual birds feeding here daily.

    If Alfred Hitchcock ever knew....
    That's a lot of birds. Wow
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    I know some got offended that I talk about my neighbor with different nationality (such as Netherlands/Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Laos, Japanese, Moroccan etc), but I found out I have an UK neighbor!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrPrena View Post
    I know some got offended that I talk about my neighbor with different nationality (such as Netherlands/Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Laos, Japanese, Moroccan etc), but I found out I have an UK neighbor!

    HAPPY SPRING BANK HOLIDAY!
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    Ask them how they're adapting to life, in the colonies
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    Quote Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo View Post
    Ask them how they're adapting to life, in the colonies
    I'd ask why, now that they've escaped the monarchy and are now living as free citizens, are they still flying the flag of oppression as mere subjects to the crown. Are they indentured servants forever? Have they learned nothing from dipshit Harry?