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There are some easy ones: Whip-poor-will - Whip-poor-will Who Cooks for you, Who cooks for you all - Barred Owl And then others Sweet, sweet, sweet, little more sweet - Yellow Warbler Pleased, Pleased, Pleased to meetch ya! - Chestnut-sided Warbler Teacher! Teacher! Teacher! Teacher! - Ovenbird I'm so laaaaaaazzzzzzzyy - Black Throated Blue Warbler Maids, Maids, Maids, Maids put on your tea-kettle-ettle-ettle - Song Sparrow Hey Willie! - Black-capped Chickadee (okay, my mother taught me that one) And lastly some that make no sense, even though thats how I learned it: Chip rinky dinky - Canada Warbler Soon they will be back! Good Birding, Will Raup Albany, NY > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:17:07 -0500 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [VTBIRD] Do you have a good mnemonic to share > To: [log in to unmask] > > A few weeks ago this exchange took place:( "Who's awake??? Me tooo." > I think that's the perfect mnemonic for GHO! I hadn't known it till now. > Thank you so much,) > I have been thinking about this exchange and the fact that I need all the > help I can get ID'ing birds by sound and there must be others that would > benefit from this kind of knowledge. How about sharing other great mnenonic's > with the list, everyone will learn. If you’re someone that doesn't want to post > but have a good mnemonic send me an email with it and when I have some I'll > post them for everyone to see. The rest can post there's to the list for all to > see and learn from. There has to be many other people that would benefit > from having a little more birding by ear skills but are afraid to ask, so I am. > With Spring just around the corner it's a good time to learn some new birding > skills just before the start of another birding season. Besides what a good way > to past this last couple of weeks of cabin fever getting excited to go birding > and try out your new knowledge. > > Good Birding > Peter Manship _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Life without walls. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_032009