Is Santa Cruz spotted towhee singing a song of unrequited love?

DEAR JOAN: This will be the fourth spring during which I get a visit from a spotted towhee. I’ve already heard and seen him. I feel sure it is the same one.

He mostly sits in a Japanese maple tree and he “trills” from morning to night through summer.

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