I’m sitting on my front porch on Muriel street listening to a young chickadee practicing and mimicking adult parent’s song. His song has a more slurry less crisp whistle to it and he’s mostly just doing the first note of “hey sweetie”. The adult is up on a higher branch and singing his complete hey sweetie clear whistled song around every fifth time the young one tries. And then the the young one holds the whistled tone more clearly and is more likely to be able to complete the phrase. He also tries to accompany simultaneously. Very neat.
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