Wood Warblers This Winter of 2018 has been long and cold and quiet. It is nearly April and I long for the return of our songbirds, especially the Wood Warblers. The first green shoots of snowdrops have begun to push through the thawing crusty soil. Sugar maples are tapped and the sap has been flowing for awhile now. Steam is streaming out of sugar shacks throughout the countryside. On warmer days our year-round birds are singing. Robins and White-throated Sparrows are turning over … [Read more...] about Songbirds of 2017 ~ Wood Warblers
Yellow Warbler Sings in the Rain
Happy June sings the Yellow Warbler! Thank you for the rain he continues . . . a delicious way to begin the new month. What other nourishing possibilities await? Hopefully you humans will make the best of them all. Please do not hold me in contempt of your reasoning. There is no real anthropomorphic intention here. This darling bird could care less what we make of our days only not to use poison on his habitat . . . not to cut it down. He putters around the trees and shrubs singing and gleaning … [Read more...] about Yellow Warbler Sings in the Rain
A Bestiary ~ Warblers ~ Northern Parula
Over two years have passed since my monthly posts featuring Warblers began over at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens. The next to the last warbler in the series, and as always sighted in the gardens at Flower Hill Farm, is presented this month in 'A Bestiary — Tales from a Wildlife Garden.' The Northern Parula perches in an old apple tree and darts about searching for insects inside flower buds as I capture photos. If you would like to see more images and learn about these … [Read more...] about A Bestiary ~ Warblers ~ Northern Parula
A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
December sighs and drops whiteness about the land. The last few weeks of 2013 are at hand. Another month unfolds and now a landscape covered in downy snow and ice lies across these hills of Western Massachusetts. I have a new installment of my 'A Bestiary . . . Tales from a Wildlife Garden' up over at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens. The Black-and-white Warbler joins the lively bouquet of warblers . . . offering its striking plumage to the arrangement of songbirds. I hope you might … [Read more...] about A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
December sighs and drops whiteness about the land. The last few weeks of 2013 are at hand.Another month unfolds and now a landscape covered in downy snow and ice lies across these hills of Western Massachusetts.I have a new installment of my 'A Bestiary . . . Tales from a Wildlife Garden' up over at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens.The Black-and-white Warbler joins the lively bouquet of warblers . . . offering its striking plumage to the arrangement of songbirds. I hope you might click … [Read more...] about A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
