[mou] Bird in Voyageurs National Park

[Dinah Pulver]

 I was in Voyageurs last week and heard a bird that I've never heard before and I'm hoping someone on this list will be able to help me figure out what it was. Being a fifth-generation Floridian who'd never been to the northern plains states, that's not all that unusual, but I can't stop thinking about this bird. It was one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. (Considering we were in some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen, it was fitting.)
 
  We heard it several times in the trees between the Rainy Lake Visitors Center and the parking lot.  It stopped us because it was so unusual but we could not find that bird for anything. We finally decided maybe it was a cell phone ringer when a man came down the trail talking on a cell phone. 
 
 But, we decided to drive up into Ontario and drive along the border to Thunder Bay and we heard the bird again on a trail along the way there. Again, two adults searching with binoculars couldn't find the bird.  I've searched my Sibley's reading descriptions of bird calls and can't find anything like this. Granted we're not expert birders by any means.
 
We did not get a recording of the bird but my daughter did get a recording of my husband whistling his impression of the bird's song. The best way I can describe it is a clear, three note whistle that kind of sounds like the first three notes of "Three Blind Mice." 
 
 I'm hoping someone can enlighten me. 
 Thanks! 
  Dinah
 
 
Dinah Voyles Pulver
Environment Writer 
The Daytona Beach News-Journal 
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