A lazy “Beer, beer, bee” is uttered by the male black-throated blue warbler. A quick “Weeta, weeta, weeteo,” approximates the song of the black, yellow, and white magnolia warbler. Many birders use mnemonics-cute little phrases-to help them remember these songs. With 25 to 30 species in the Northeast, these small, active, colorful birds may seem daunting to identify, but each warbler species’ song is unique and learnable. The short phrases, repeated over and over, unmistakably say vireo. The blue-headed vireo’s phraseology is deliberate and mellow, while the yellow-throated vireo sounds like a hoarse blue-headed. Red-eyed vireos sound as if they are talking to themselves-”see me, here I am, up here.” The cadence is almost frantic, with virtually no pauses. The songs of vireos, which are a bit larger than warblers, but less active, are composed of short, monotonous phrases. And the Swainson’s thrush, found only in upper elevation boreal forest, sings a tune reminiscent of the veery’s, but rising instead of falling. The veery’s soft refrain is a down-the-scale “veer, veer, veer,” while the wood thrush sings a clear bell-tone “ee-o-lay.” The hermit thrush’s song is similar to that of wood thrush, but higher and thinner. Their songs are reedy and flute-like-ethereal and enchanting.
But the dark woodlands hold some of our most notable singers-veery, wood thrush, hermit thrush, and Swainson’s thrush. The ubiquitous American robin is a thrush, as is the bluebird. Warblers, with 25 to 30 species, are another matter because of their sheer diversity. Tackling the first two is fairly easy given that each includes a relatively few species. Among the many residents of woodland habitats are thrushes, vireos, and warblers.
Let’s consider birds that call Northeastern woodlands home. Many excellent field guides are on the market, and local species lists are available at most nature centers and online to help you narrow the choices. For instance, you shouldn’t expect to hear the exuberant, bubbly refrain of a winter wren in the middle of a hayfield, since they prefer shaded hemlock ravines. First, acquaint yourself with the species in your area and what habitats they frequent. Learning bird songs is in part a process of elimination. And with this ability comes an enhanced enjoyment of the outdoors. Hundreds of species breed in the Northeast, so how can a listener possibly differentiate between their many songs? It takes practice and a good ear, but almost anyone can learn to distinguish the vocalizations of our common songsters. Identifying bird songs can be both beguiling and bewildering. Then she started to play."Īs well as appearing on the Rumours album, Songbird was released as a b'side on the album's second single, Dreams.A quick “weeta, weeta, weeteo” approximates the song of the black, white, and yellow magnolia warbler-pictured above. "When Christine arrived, we dimmed the house lights so that all she could see were the flowers and the piano with the spotlight shining down from the heavens. I really wanted to set the mood!" Caillat wrote. "As a surprise for Christine, I had requested that a bouquet of roses be placed on her piano with three colored spotlights to illuminate them from above.
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I wished it would happen more often, but it hasn't."Īs Newsweek reports, in Rumours' producer Ken Caillat book, Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album, McVie got to record the song on a nine-foot Steinway piano inside the University of California's Zellerbach Hall on March 3, 1976. So I had to stay awake all night so I wouldn't forget it and I came in the next morning to the studio and had Ken Callait put it on a 2-track. "I played it in my bedroom and didn't have anything to tape it on. I woke up in the middle of the night and the song was there in my brain, chords lyrics melody, everything. I've never been able to figure out how I did that.
She said: "For some peculiar reason I wrote Songbird in half an hour. In response, she used the song-writing process of Songbird as an example of this otherworldly power coming into play. In a 2017 interview alongside Lindsey Buckingham in People, McVie is questioned by the interviewer on whether she believed her music had an "supernatural" element to it. I think they were all smoking opium or something in the control room. Everyone just sat there and stared at me. "I played it nervously, but I remembered it.
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