If you were a little bird and you saw this approaching you, would you fly away?
Saturday was a beautiful sunny day which happened to coincide with the first day of Spring. Suzy really wanted to drag me away from the computer into the sunshine, so we headed over to Sawgrass Lake Park to go for a walk. I thought perhaps I’d see a few interesting birds. The most beautiful thing about the walk was the maples trees with fresh new leaves. Everything was so fresh looking.
It turned out that most of the birds were near the visitor’s center: an Eastern phoebe or two, a Black-and-white warbler, Yellow-rumped warblers galore, and a few Palm warblers. We met a few other birders along the trail, including a very knowledgeable fellow who had moved here from Texas. He was hoping to spot a Northern parula, which is one of the first of the spring migrants to arrive in Florida. We chatted for a few minutes, then his wife–probably accustomed to him getting into protracted birding conversations– nudged him down the trail. Probably, like my wife, she was out to relax and enjoy the company of her husband and was not interested in a Snipe hunt.
I heard an unfamiliar bird song and was trying to find its source. Never did find it. Photo courtesy of Suzy McRee who exercised a fair degree of patience during my quest.
