OK, I'm a really bad by-ear-birder, so any help here would be appreciated
(tough, I know, to translate sound into print)...

outside my house right now... very close by -- could be in the large cedar
hedge, in the young locust tree, or on the grass.  Song starts with three
long descending notes, followed by three quick identical three-part
components on the same pitch as the last descending note, with the accent on
the first "syllable"-- here's my  best transliteration.

tseeee
        tseeee
                tseeee TSEE-tse-tse  TSEE-tse-tse  TSEE-tse-tse


Any ideas? I'm sure it's something really obvious and common that I just
don't know because, as I said, I can't remember even basic songs from one
hearing to the next.

Thanks!

--Miriam Lawrence, Monkton Ridge