Sound Moment · Catskills Chorus with Ovenbird, Towhee, and Chickadee

Eastern Towhee: Drink-your-teeea with trailing trill

An Eastern Towhee delivers the full phrase, a bold drink-your-teeea and its long buzzy trill, front and center.

Catskills Chorus with Ovenbird, Towhee, and Chickadee
mixed forest understory, late May · May 21, 2026
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Sound Moments
15
  1. A Black-capped Chickadee opens with its pure, falling fee-bee, two clear whistles dropping like a gentle sigh.
  2. An Ovenbird rings out its teacher-teacher-TEACHER, each burst louder than the last, over a Black-capped Chickadee's fee-bee and a low, distant American Crow.
  3. An Eastern Towhee steps up with a sharp drink-your-teeea, the two opening notes deliberate before the long, buzzy trill.
  4. A Chipping Sparrow rattles its dry, mechanical trill underneath, a string of identical chips running together like a tiny motor.
  5. A Black-capped Chickadee slips in another clean, falling fee-bee.
  6. An Eastern Towhee finishes its drink-your-teeea with a bright rolling trill, the buzzy flourish that ends the song.
  7. An Eastern Towhee delivers the full phrase, a bold drink-your-teeea and its long buzzy trill, front and center.
  8. A Chestnut-sided Warbler cuts through with a bright pleased-pleased-pleased-to-MEETCHA, the accented finale snapping upward.
  9. A Black-capped Chickadee drops a clean two-note fee-bee just after the towhee.
  10. A Black-capped Chickadee adds another pure, falling fee-bee.
  11. A Chestnut-sided Warbler rings out pleased-pleased-pleased-to-MEETCHA from mid-canopy, the rising finale snapping above the understory.
  12. Underneath the chickadee, a distant American Crow pushes a flat, coarse caw from well back in the forest.
  13. An Eastern Towhee rings out drink-your-teeea from the mid-level brush, the trill spilling out beneath it.
  14. A Chestnut-sided Warbler sounds another pleased-pleased-pleased-to-MEETCHA from mid-canopy, snapping cleanly above the chorus.
  15. An Eastern Towhee throws a sharp, rising chewink call from the understory, a quick upward flick before the trill.
Full transcript
  1. A Black-capped Chickadee opens with its pure, falling fee-bee, two clear whistles dropping like a gentle sigh.
  2. An Ovenbird rings out its teacher-teacher-TEACHER, each burst louder than the last, over a Black-capped Chickadee's fee-bee and a low, distant American Crow.
  3. An Eastern Towhee steps up with a sharp drink-your-teeea, the two opening notes deliberate before the long, buzzy trill.
  4. A Chipping Sparrow rattles its dry, mechanical trill underneath, a string of identical chips running together like a tiny motor.
  5. A Black-capped Chickadee slips in another clean, falling fee-bee.
  6. An Eastern Towhee finishes its drink-your-teeea with a bright rolling trill, the buzzy flourish that ends the song.
  7. An Eastern Towhee delivers the full phrase, a bold drink-your-teeea and its long buzzy trill, front and center.
  8. A Chestnut-sided Warbler cuts through with a bright pleased-pleased-pleased-to-MEETCHA, the accented finale snapping upward.
  9. A Black-capped Chickadee drops a clean two-note fee-bee just after the towhee.
  10. A Black-capped Chickadee adds another pure, falling fee-bee.
  11. A Chestnut-sided Warbler rings out pleased-pleased-pleased-to-MEETCHA from mid-canopy, the rising finale snapping above the understory.
  12. Underneath the chickadee, a distant American Crow pushes a flat, coarse caw from well back in the forest.
  13. An Eastern Towhee rings out drink-your-teeea from the mid-level brush, the trill spilling out beneath it.
  14. A Chestnut-sided Warbler sounds another pleased-pleased-pleased-to-MEETCHA from mid-canopy, snapping cleanly above the chorus.
  15. An Eastern Towhee throws a sharp, rising chewink call from the understory, a quick upward flick before the trill.

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