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blue-headed just passing through
Besides there is a lot happening outside around our homes. This afternoon a blue-headed vireo with white spectacles passed through migrating to the Smokies and places farther north.
Did we see it? No, we didn't have to but we heard it above the driveway as it moved through the canopy.
To recognize the blue-headed's song, that is really more of a lengthy conversation than a melodious song, you really need to know the red-eyed vireo's vocalization. For that species it's a long series of phrases, one after the other after the other. A mnemonic like, "I'm up here, don't you see me, please look up, I am in the tree." And so on and so on with very little space in between.
The blue-headed, once known as the solitary vireo, is very similar except there is a lot more space between the phrases. Almost more space than phrase. "I'm up here.........don't you see me........please look up........I am in the tree......" And so it goes for a very long period of time.
Ob-la-dee, ob-la-da.
And thank you Dr. Fred Alsop, who taught me this a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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| In these treetops somewhere. But where? |
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