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