There's been a lot of confusion about this thread... I guess the original
note was posted elsewhere. I'll comment, anyway!

I'll just say: I was enthralled the first time I heard this beautiful,
twittering song. I was AMAZED to see that it was my raucous, nearly-tame
Steller's Jay. // This particular bird was totally satiated with the food
and the stashing-activity that my peanuts had just provided. While it
sang, it sat in a dogwood in my yard, perhaps hoping for more
entertainment?-I don't know. This was early last summer. // I hear no
twitterings/ or "whisper songs" during the winter.

It reminded me of a pet parakeet who talks itself to sleep, head under
its wing, sitting on its swing. "All's right with the world."
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And so what do those astute birders among us surmise? (I grew up in the
Midwest, and never heard anything like this from Blue Jays.) "Whisper
songs." I really like that!

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