Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road


Tag: brown thrasher

  • A Month for Songs

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    The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings. ~Joyce Kilmer, Spring Sipping my coffee with the cool air coming in the window before sunrise this morning, I can hear the first songs of the new day – a northern cardinal, a late spring peeper, Read more…

  • Garden Birds – Brown Thrasher

    Perhaps, if we had more neglected brush heaps and tangles of unkempt shrubbery and vines about our grounds, we might tempt the thrasher to be more sociable and nest near our homes. ~Dr. W.G. Erwin in Bent’s Life Histories of North American Birds I see Brown Thrashers all year in North Carolina, but, in winter, Read more…