Concord, Mass
1910
June 19
(No 3)
[June 19, 1910]

Flight song of Wood Peewee [Wood Pewee]

  One of the Wood Pewees (the male I suppose) of the
pair which always nest in the big trees about our farm
house appeared at sunset this evening at a height of
about fifty feet above the open space formed by the
flower garden flying in small, irregular circles on
a perfectly level plane calling pee-ee-e, wut'l-wut-l;
pee-ee-e, wut'l- wut'l a dozen times or more. I
have no doubt this was a true flight song which I
cannot remember ever seeing the Wood Pewee perform
before although I may have done so & forgotten it.
When circling and calling thus the bird beat his wings
rather slowly & steadily and kept his tail wide-spread.
I hear his sweet, plaintive pee-ee-e (and sometimes the
impatient wut'l also) or the "dying fall" form of it, in our
tall elms at all hours of the day from dawn to late
into the evening twilight. Perhaps there is no sound more
pleasing and restful to the senses in all nature.