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woodnote

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wood·note  (wdnt)
n.
1. A song or call characteristic of a woodland bird.
2. Natural, spontaneous verbal utterance.
woodnote [ˈwʊdˌnəʊt]
n
(Music, other) a natural musical note or song, like that of a wild bird
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Here is no divinely inspired warbler of native woodnotes wild: "he evidently took pains with scripts; he was a reviser, with a poet's concern for verbal style.
Shakespeare: A Life by Dean, Paul / New Criterion
Bednarz had already gone some way to dislodge the view, traceable back to Shakespeare's own moment, of the playwright as a child of nature, warbling his native woodnotes in sublime indifference to questions of poetic authority.
Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright by Belsey, Catherine / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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