At 8:30 this morning I was treated to the mellow peter peter peter peter of a Tufted Titmouse in Harahan, near 6th Street x Hickory. I was surprised, since the species is quite restricted in its occurrence in East Jefferson. The closest I would have expected to perhaps find one would be the batture, which is 0.85 miles distant (thank you, Google Earth). I listened for several iterations to make sure it was not a mockingbird's imitation (mockers will always break into something else after a handful of repetitions).
It's doubly interesting, since the peter peter peter is its nesting season song- another early sign that the birds are starting to gear up for the spring ahead, even though we are not yet at the solstice (well, okay, just short of it by a few hours...)
Peter
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