Lynne,
   To me you are possibly describing a Ruby-crowned Kinglet song,
particularly the three-note phrase repeated three times.  Jeff

On Thursday, April 28, 2016, Lynne Fitzhugh <
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> Yes, I mis-named our Sam Peabody bird yesterday, the result of many
> summers on Labrador's coastal tundra where the sweet, plaintive song of the
> White-crowned sparrow was sound-track for the immense landscape. Now I need
> to look the two up every spring to remind myself which name goes with which
> bird.
>
> Today I heard a song new to me and couldn't see the songster high in the
> treetops. It was a sort of cheap cheap twitter twitter followed by a
> melodious three-note phrase repeated three times, sort of like towhee but
> different words and inflections than towhee. Ideas anyone? Yesterday heard
> what sounded like a vireo -- blue-headed maybe?: variable short phrases,
> longer pauses between them than red-eyed.
>
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