I woke up yesterday to what I thought might be a variant black-throated green warbler song.  Instead I was greeted by a small flock of white-crowned sparrows, adults and immature, hanging out in my blue spruce and scratching around under the nearby feeder!  They're still around this morning, and the backyard treat is a mixed group of warblers high up in the alas fully leafed out ash trees.  I was able to make out a brilliant male blackburnian and a male black-polled.  Saturday there were 2 male rose-breasted grosbeaks at the back yard feeders.  All great new yardbirds to begin my third summer in my new house--a small compensation for missing yet another warbler season as I continue to replace the front yard with bird- and butterfly- friendly perennial flower beds!  Good birding!  Pam Unger

The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves--we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other's destiny. --Mary Oliver




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