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This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

April 10, 2013
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

It's the latest date of spring arrival I've ever recorded for the brown thrasher in my neck of the woods. This one must have flown all night, maybe a couple of hundred miles, through rain and lightning and thunder. This morning, no songs were forthcoming, but the thrasher voraciously attacked whatever was lurking hidden in the forest duff.

Brown Thrasher Gobbles Dirt

—Diane Porter

Chickadee on hand

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