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Louisiana waterthrush

April 15, 2026 by Dave Bonta

A freakishly warm breeze lightly seasoned with rain. The sun appears and disappears at random. A Louisiana waterthrush calls from the first bend in the creek below the spring.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags Louisiana waterthrush, rain, stream
April 9, 2024 by Dave Bonta

In the half-light, a Louisiana waterthrush’s jumble of notes. The sky is nearly clear. Peonies are raising red hands out of the earth.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags dawn, Louisiana waterthrush, peonies
May 15, 2022 by Dave Bonta

A Louisiana waterthrush declaims from a walnut tree, bobbing up and down as is its wont. Up in the woods, a chipmunk ticks like a too-fast clock.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags chipmunks, Louisiana waterthrush
April 19, 2021 by Dave Bonta

Sun and clouds; turkey and turkey vultures. A waterthrush sings all ‘round the yard, bobbing up and down on his perch.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags Louisiana waterthrush, turkey vultures, wild turkey
April 8, 2013 by Dave Bonta

Back from migration, a Louisiana waterthrush sings above the trickle of a stream. Chickadees excavate a den hole in the dead cherry stump.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags cherry tree, chickadee, Louisiana waterthrush, stream 1 Comment

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On This Day

  • June 16, 2025
    An intensely green lushness makes an orphan out of the brown pile of juniper cuttings at the woods’ edge—last winter’s one spot of green. At 7:10, in the pouring rain, the first cicada starts up.
  • June 16, 2024
    Cool and quiet, with the sun half-dimmed by thin clouds. A series of loud wingbeats from the forest. A gurgle from my gut.
  • June 16, 2023
    The soft noise of steady rain; birdcalls sound half-submerged. I watch wisps of cloud drift through the yard.
  • June 16, 2022
    Hazy and humid. The sun in the crown of the big dead maple. A hen turkey putting like slow motor, summoning her chicks.​
  • June 16, 2021
    Clear and cold (46F/8C). A few, blue chinks in the green wall of leaves where the ridgetop oaks have been decimated by gypsy moth caterpillars.

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