This morning I heard a familiar song, across the street where formerly there was a large wild meadow. I would hear him but was never able to track it down in time. I grabbed binocs and stalked it a bit, studying every tree from across the street in our yard. I finally saw it, a sparrow with a large black spot on its chest, so we're saying it's a Fox Sparrow. I hope he visits us too, and in the past we have occasionally seen one at the feeder system.
Also, later this morning, my husband saw a Pine Grosbeak, which is great since we have not seen many of those in our yard in the last years as our yard vegetation changes to almost all spruce, the climax forest, and very little deciduous.
Have not seen our Blackpoll visitor again, but we're keeping a watch.
As many spruce trees as we have in our yard, and as ubiquitous as they are all over the peninsula, they still seem very beautiful to me. I found a sprout coming up in my garden, and then another one, I could not bear to pull them up and throw them away. So I planted them in my house, in a pot of dirt with a coleus. I see trouble ahead when they start getting big.
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