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surrounding leaves ior insects.
While Lee Trott clipped roses, I prowled the woods. The tanager’s song was stitched through with the incessantly repeated song of a red-eyed vireo. This small greenish bird with a black-bordered eye stripe, sang its short, abrupt phrases over and over: “See me? Up here, look here.”
So constantly does the vireo sing that one ornithological researcher measured 40 phrases per minute. It is a monotonous, continuous performance — the voice of the forests of the Virginia Piedmont.
Where there are uninterrupted stands of oak, hickory, maple — and an occasional tulip tree — one can be sure of hearing the vireo constantly asking himself questions and answering them.
Far away, I heard the guttural, throaty call of a yellowbilled cuckoo.
No other sounds — cars, trucks, or the distant hum of an airplane — intruded. I heard only the hoarse, yet distinctive,
phrases of the tan- j agers, the continuous talk,of 1 the vireo, and the toneless chant of the cuckoo.
Lee Trott came away with an armful of yellow roses, I with memories of bird song and an inward vision of a bird with scarlet and black plumage.
Write Virginia naturalist John Trott care of this newspaper: P.O. Box 59, Washington, Va., 22747.
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