zee-you

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I suspect there may be more than one pair of blue-gray gnatcatchers nesting in the trees that surround the plaza in front of the Visitor Center at Ijams. Their lispy, high-pitched "zee-you, zee-you, zee-you" seems to be ubiquitous.

Naturalist Emily Boves finally located one of the small lichen covered nests in the top of a red maple by the front door.

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three-EIGHT

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Staff naturalist Emily Boves heard a yellow-throated vireo, an early migrant, working its way through the shumard oaks on the plaza in front of the Visitor Center at Ijams three days ago.

As with vireos, the phrases are rhythmic and well spaced with dramatic pauses in between. The numeric mnemonic to remember the yellow-throat's song is "three-EIGHT ...... three-EIGHT ...... three-EIGHT ...... three-EIGHT."

The shumard oaks are also the area we tend to see and hear blue-gray gnatcatchers.

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