Listening to a Continent Sing

A dozen standard daytime songs of an eastern northern parula, repeated over and over. He rises up the scale, climbing the stairs, so to speak, with a series of raspy notes, then falls off the top with a single low, emphatic note on the end of the song.

Background

An eastern phoebe, red-breasted nuthatch, blue-headed vireo, chimney swift, Blackburnian warbler, distant jet.

Photo by John Van de Graaff