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This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

April 27, 2013
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

This afternoon the eastern kingbird is back, spending the last hour before sundown hawking insects over the pond. After each fancy flight, it returned to a branch and flashed open its white-rimmed tail.

Isn't the pattern intricate, with little beads of black within the white margin?

Eastern Kingbird


—Diane Porter

Chickadee on hand

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