This may not even be a bird.  Chipmunk was suggested, but the habitat is too wet, and the vocalization usually emanates from the stream.  Besides, although I have heard many chipmunks, I've never heard the same descending seven-note "keh" from a chipmunk.  So, I got to thinking about the various bird-like vocalizations of another rodent, the squirrel (mew like a catbird, "chock" like a yellow-billed cuckoo, etc.), and what animal would thrive in this habitat, and I came up with mink.  Does anyone know what vocalization, if any, a mink makes?

Margaret Bowman
Licking Co., OH

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