Yes, Virginia! The bittern reality. And much more. First, some beauty:
Same location as yesterday: exactly. Same time: approximately. Same bird: not probable as this one seems to be first-year male with the orange eyebrow. Near our house I heard another grosbeak’s loud, un-musical song at Clark Creek Park. An off-pitch robinesque call which goes on…and on.
Late this afternoon I saw two grosbeaks feeding in our garden at the same time, both males. One was at the suet.
TALKING WATERS
Where Albert Ryckman goes to practice his admirable photo skills. Yesterday, two fine prizes: Virginia* and bittern:
SOME PREVIOUS GARDEN PICTURES:
Some totally unexpected publicity! From “High Country News:”
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*Virginia Rail was named to honor the state, unlike Virginia’s Warbler named after the wife of a man who eventually became a Confederate medical officer. So that name seems to set to disappear officially. VIrginia’s husband, Dr. Anderson collected the first known warbler specimen ion the southwest at his army post, before the Civil War. He sent it back to Spencer Baird at the Smithsonian.
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