This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

April 18, 2012
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

Hearing a little song like a bee's buzz, I look up and see a pair of blue-gray gnatcatchers. A moment later one of the tiny birds goes to the nest they're building. It looks so soft and cozy, decorated with bits of lichen, for a moment I long to be a baby bird in the nest up in that swaying tree.

Photo copyright 2012 Michael and Diane Porter

Here's another picture of one of the gnatcatchers. What a long, expressive tail it has! What big eyes it has!

Photo copyright 2012 Michael and Diane Porter

—Diane Porter

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