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tumblehome	05/10/2013 08:01PM   The White Throated Sparrow makes its appearance in Duluth exactly the last few days of April every year. This year I thought they would surely be late since winter held on for so long. Not so. Even with 24' of snow on the ground, they arrived and the woods is full of them. What a wonderful bird. I must also note that the call of the WTS seems to be quite different based on the geographical location of the bird. I am not an ornithologist so I cannot offer the science behind the difference in their call. In my back yard, I have never heard the dialect of the call as heard in the original post. I found this audio/video that closely resembles the sound of the bird in the Duluth area. This is also how the bird sounds in the BWCA. I have found many different calls of the same bird on Youtube but most of the calls do not sound like what we here in the north woods of MN. How they sound in Northern MN. The first 25 seconds of the audio Thanks for the bump! Tom
Old Hoosier	05/10/2013 12:01PM   Pete, This little songbird represents the north country in a very special way to me. I first noticed their very high pitched song when fishing with my Dad many years ago in the International Falls area. Would you believe I heard one of them singing in my back yard this week in Tennessee? Guess they migrate? Or perhaps our mountain elevation is high enough they consider it a similar to the northern forest terrain? I never get tired of that song. Old Hoosier
24kGold	05/12/2013 11:46PM   I fell in love with that birdsong on my first trip back in 1997. Those sparrows overwinter here in Arkansas and they are constantly at my feeder. I hear their calls off and on until April and every time I hear one during the winter here, I can't help but think about my Quetico trips. They really help me get through the long, cold days and make me look forward to my next northern adventure. I can't help but smile every time I hear them. They're not much to look at, but neither was Susan Boyle. :-) (Was that tacky?) Terry
Jackfish	01/08/2011 11:51AM   Thought you all would enjoy this. I know I'm in Quetico when I hear this song. White Throated Sparrow song
kanoes	01/08/2011 11:55AM   thanks for making me smile. :)
Springer2	03/16/2014 03:32PM   My favorite--winters here in Iowa, see and hear them every spring in Quetico.
GraniteCliffs	03/12/2014 09:51PM   Love that sound. It reminds me of early morning and coffee on the trail on a calm and clear day.
tumblehome	03/13/2014 07:33AM   I love when old posts come back around. The WTS will return to my back yard on May 1st give or take three days. They arrive on time like the swallows of Capistrano.
OldGreyGoose	03/13/2014 10:39AM   WTSs are still in my yard here in SW Illinois (well, as of yesterday). Don't get to hear their "song" here much, because they move back North. --Goose
Jackfish	05/10/2013 10:41AM   Bump... just because.
Beemer01	05/10/2013 12:13PM   Now I finally know what species sings this song! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
TomT	01/08/2011 01:24PM   That's really cool. I like finding a site where you hear this in the evening.
Boppa	01/08/2011 02:27PM   Jackfish, Thanks, came at a good time. Boppa
Springer2	01/08/2011 08:09PM   Love those white-throats--I have a trio of them at my feeder in eastern Iowa this winter--like to think they are the same birds that sang so sweetly last May to us on Kashahpiwi. The bird book says they're singing "Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody" but I think "Oh Canada, Canada, Canada" makes more sense.
mgraber	03/12/2014 08:23PM   Thanks for making my wife and me smile. We can't wait until our June trip!
Jackfish	03/31/2011 11:21AM   Bump... just because I like to see new posts in the Quetico Afficionados forum. By the way, Mocha... I play the White-throated Sparrow song when our cat is in my office. It's funny to watch her perk up and wonder where that bird is!
mocha	02/01/2011 03:44PM   thanks Jackfish!! that is my favorite bird song. i put it on my desktop so i can click it when people walk by. they look around for the birdy.