Yesterday morning and early evening, around our house and neighborhood east of Collegetown, I kept hearing a totally unfamiliar bird song. It was 3 to 7 or 8 repeated, loud, clear whistles, all on the same note (E of the E string on a violin). Very easy to imitate, so I whistled it a few times, hoping to draw the bird closer, but only chickadees came near. Just once, I saw the bird zoom from the top of a tree to somewhere behind our house, but couldn't see what it looked like, except that it was about the size of a sparrow. It was back-lit, so it was impossible to see what color it was. Do tufted titmice ever sing such a tune? It was even clearer than their usual song, and entirely on one note. (Not much of a composer!) Betsy
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