Peep peep peep brrrrrrrr - what bird is waking me up?

Factual Questions
1

I moved last summer from Western Canada to Eastern (Ontario) and haven noticed a bird waking me up in the wee morning hours that I had not heard before.

I attempted through some YouTube videos to find it, but haven’t been able to pinpoint it - it sounds like peep, peep, peep (then a trill) brrrrrr!

Any bird experts able to identify from my terrible description? If t helps, I live backing onto a wooded area, creek and park so it could be anything!

2

red wing blackbird?

3

No, but I definitely hear that one too.

4

I heard a bird like that a couple weeks ago and thought it was interesting and unusual. I liked how it had a pattern to it - exactly three chirps and a trill every time. I couldn’t see the bird but it was somewhere in the trees behind my house. I walked back there and took a video to get the sound so I could send it to my friend who is an avid birder (like, she goes birding every day).

She told me it was a Robin!

5

Hmmm I found some on YouTube, and none had that pattern, but I am open to the possibility. More research.

6

Does it sound like the opening notes of Beethoven’s 5th? That’s the song sparrow, which we hear all the time here on Long Island, New York.

7

My guess would be a towhee, and given that you are in eastern Canada probably a eastern towhee

The first birdsong I learned was the spotted towhee precisely because he would wake me up every morning.

8

Cardinal?

9

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Cardinal?

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That’s it! Thank you!

10

Coincidentally, we had a thread very recently asking about an app to ID bird songs.

In it, Ashtura linked to an iPhone app called Song Sleuth which looks pretty cool (the Android version should be out in May).

Edit: In that thread, gren says to get the app store version, not the one on the website.

11

(Damn it, this was supposed to be the board magic I’m used to. Have a question and within 48 hours someone else posts it.)

What about three descending notes the last one turning into a ‘trill’?

CMC fnord!

12

Thank your lucky stars that you’re getting a mellifluous wakeup from the birds. For the past two days we’ve been awakened by turkeys.
“Gobble - gobble - gobble” is a weird bird alarm.

13

Field Sparrow?