Trailwalker
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I live in the Northern suburbs of NYC (60 miles North of the Bronx) my home property consists of 3 acres of woods, a field and a stream. My wife and I are brand new to birding so we don't know very much yet. We have recently been listening to the birds in our field and thought we heard a Red Bellied WP based on what we heard in the iBird ap of our iPads. For days I had been listening but was only able to see a Downey WP, so I wrote it off as that. Yesterday our Nikon Monarch binocs arrived and I hit the field to see what I could see. After hearing the distinctive call that I thought might be the Red Bellied WP I zeroed in on a particular tree only to see the Downey again. I figured that in my inexperience I was mistaking the call of the Downey for a Red Bellied but low and behold... a few seconds later in the same tree was the Red Bellied WP! A small victory for the new guy!