To Garth McElroy: Is there some reason you cannot ID the bird on the video, so that when someone like me, who wants to learn to id the birds, as there are several I hear around my home in northern New Jersey that I do not know, can look up from my knitting to see which bird it is that is singing that song that I hear every morning? I'm sorry, I do not want to stare at the footage of all the hundreds of songbirds for hours every day, but I do love to listen to them, and watch them when I can. But I spend hours every day knitting, which does require my attention to be on my hands or on my pattern a significant amount of time, so that I cannot just watch the video. So, when I hear that birdsong that I have been hunting for for years, if I could look at the video and see what bird that is, that would be so fantastic! Same way that when I go hunting for a particular birdsong the other way -- by choosing random birds and listening to their songs -- it takes hours and hours, and I do not actually learn any new songs, or learn to associate any specific songs to particular birds. It seems that I hear the songs in my yard, and I remember those songs. But then how do I find that song in order to ID that bird? So it would be so great if people who take the time to make these videos of birds singing their songs could somehow put the name of the bird on the video, not just for a split second, if that, but through the song, that would be an immense help to people like me. Many thanks.
