Bird identification can be difficult. The thrushes are a good example. American Robins are thrushes and are easy to identify.

The Wood Thrush is rusty-headed.

The Hermit Thrush has a reddish tail.

The Veery is a uniform warm brown above.

The Swainson’s Thrush has a heavily spotted breast and bold, buffy “spectacles.”

The Gray-cheeked Thrush (which we saw today eating Sea-buckthorn berries) is very similar to the Swainson’s but has a pale eye ring and grayish cheeks.

Other birds:

Interesting light this morning:

Today’s group:

NATURE POETRY

The icicles now fringe the trees
That swayed in summer’s gentle breeze,
When summer days were fair.                                  – Dora Read Goodale (1866–1915)

Miles Hearn