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black-throated blue warbler

April 30, 2024 by Dave Bonta

The sun rose while I was watching the moon. Now there’s a black-throated blue warbler at the woods’ edge whispering its three-syllable song.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags black-throated blue warbler, moon, sunrise
May 5, 2014 by Dave Bonta

His call sounds much farther away than the lilac, this black-throated blue warbler in his elegant plumage, hiding in the only leafy shade.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags black-throated blue warbler, lilac
October 7, 2010 by Dave Bonta

A black-throated blue warbler alights in the dead cherry. I follow it to the spicebush, where yellow-throated vireos sing bright red notes.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags black-throated blue warbler, cherry tree, spicebush, yellow-throated vireo 1 Comment

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