[EBB Sightings] Hermit Thrush

Dear Birding Friends:

One of the most important events in my birding year occurred this
morning when the Hermit Thrush, who has spent a quiet winter in my
garden, began singing.  No big, ringing melodies, mind you, but a
sweet, tuneful rendering in soto voce of the gorgeous ascending song
that will soon be heard in the Sierra.  I welcome this annual event but
I also can't ignore a sense of loss when the winter birds, so much a
part of my 'close-in' life, move on.  I doubly regret the untimely
death of an earlier Hermit Thrush who mistook my glass door, reflecting
garden, for a safe passage.  He lies buried in the garden nourishing an
unusually fine bed of early flowering astromeria -- granted a poor
substitute for cool, mountain forests.

Phila Rogers

Still around -- at least one singing Ruby-crowned Kinglet --


 
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