"Poor indeed is the garden in which birds find no homes."

-  Abram L. Urban

 

 

 

Mockingbirds: the fledgling with beak open and the parent

June 9, 2008

 

 

 

Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers,
  

Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water.
    

Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,
     

 That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.
      

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline

 

Mockingbird displaying for his mate

May 5, 2008

Photo by BT

 

 

Towhee

March 22, 2008

 

 

"We never miss the music until the sweet voiced bird has flown."

- - - O. Henry

 

Towhee

 

 

"In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence."

- - - Robert Lynd

 

A Blue Jay

March 22, 2008

 

 

"The bluebird carries the sky on its back."

- - - Henry David Thoreau

Mockingbird on fence post

March 22, 2008

 

"I was always a lover of soft-winged things."

-----Victor Hugo

 

Scrub Jay in front bark bed

May 21, 2008

 

 

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