A new bird in the neighborhood -- a very loud and persistent call that (I now learn) is variously transcribed from birdish into English as Teacher! Teacher! Teacher! or Tea-kettle! Tea-kettle! Tea-kettle! but that sounds lo me like Chew it, chew it, chew it! or with more emphasis on the second syllable, To wit! To wit! To wit?. I saw the bird -- it likes to sit on the post of the deck railing -- and it is a wren, or seemed to be, a bit larger though, but still amazingly tiny to produce suc...
Published on June 20, 2010 13:01