Eastern Phoebe by the Don River: Sept. 27, 2022

The phoebe is the flycatcher most at home near human habitations. It is usually the first to appear in spring and the last to leave in fall. It has a diagnostic habit of wagging its tail as if stirring porridge with it.

Both morning and afternoon groups saw phoebes.

Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe

Other birds:

Gray Catbird
Red-tailed Hawk
Gray Catbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
European Starlings
European Starlings
European Starlings
Song Sparrow
Blue Jay
Song Sparrow
Song Sparrow

Area views:

Thank-you to a walker who discovered what these rubber mats by the tracks are for:

The mats are placed in places where pedestrians regularly try to wrongly dash across rail lines. But the rubber carpets create a less than stable route.

Red-eared Slider
Dryad’s Saddle

10am group:

1pm group (in the rain):


NATURE POETRY

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall. – William Wordsworth

Miles Hearn

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