Brown Thrashers, with their loud, repeated note calls, are usually easy to locate. The problem is getting close enough for a good photo. My tactic is to immediately take a photo:

Then move closer by about 10 steps:

Then another 10 steps:

and another:

At this point, the thrasher has usually had enough and takes off.

Other birds on this day:

Bruce’s Mills still has a former mill building:

Other views:

The most glorious colour was these Yellow Flags:

Other botany:

NATURE POETRY

In June ’tis good to lie beneath a tree
While the blithe season comforts every sense,
Steeps all the brain in rest, and heals the heart,
Brimming it o’er with sweetness unawares.        – James Russell Lowell (1819–91)

Miles Hearn