An hour past sunrise. The downpour past, a Carolina wren and a common yellowthroat both sing in fast waltz time.
The view from my front porch every morning, in 140 or fewer characters
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A song so familiar it takes several...
A song so familiar it takes several minutes to register that this is new, the first I’ve heard it since last fall: common yellowthroat.
A male yellowthroat flies from perch...
A male yellowthroat flies from perch to perch without singing. It occurs to me that most of the music in my life wasn’t made for human ears.
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Gray and misty. A common yellowthroat...
Gray and misty. A common yellowthroat keeps caroling back to a Carolina wren, until I have trouble remembering which “witchedy” is which.
Also tagged Carolina wren
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Breezy, overcast, a spit of rain—...
Breezy, overcast, a spit of rain—these reports never seem complete without the weather. The buzz of a hummingbird. A common yellowthroat.
Also tagged catbird, hummingbird
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The yellowthroat’s witchedywitchedywitchedy...
The yellowthroat’s witchedywitchedywitchedy woke me at dawn. Now he sits silent on a curved claw of dead elm, insouciant in his black mask.
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Another reason not to mow the lawn:...
Another reason not to mow the lawn: a male common yellowthroat feeds a querulous fledgling in the tall grass directly in front of the porch.
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