Copyright 2007 by Richie Swanson
I took a last look into Aghaming Park and Preserve after birding it dawn-to-noon four mornings per week since February. A prothonotary warbler flashed luminously yellow, biting a mayfly’s head, feeding fledglings. A great crested flycatcher rasped, dive-bombing a yellow-bellied sapsucker from a tree-hole. An American redstart slapped a caterpillar against a branch until gut-juices squirted. A yellow-billed cuckoo pumped its tail and wings in time to its knocker-call. An Eastern wood peewee slurred pee-ah-wee sleepily, then abruptly chased another bird from a hunting perch. All these birds winter in mature forests disappearing from Central and South America. They’re breeding in woods on the Upper Miss and need them on the Lower Miss too.
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