This morning from 7:05 to 7:35, someone was chattering quietly to itself in a dogwood close to my bedroom window. It made the occasional Carolina Wren-like one-note, but otherwise just kept mostly whispering sweet almost-musical notes, never moving and never showing itself. Meanwhile a family of 4 Carolinas entertained me in the lilac right outside my window - almost silently! The usual locals called including red-eyed and yellow-throated vireos, pewee, and a long-since-gone Veery (house wrens fledged yesterday and disappeared). I turned on Merlin out of curiosity - nothing likely (yellow-billed cuckoo, green heron - doubtful - Merlin can get so creative!) and it did not register Carolina Wren until 7:30!
So, other than that it never moved at all during a half-hour concert, I decided it was an early-migrating Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Sweet!
Angela Dimmitt
New Milford
This morning from 7:05 to 7:35, someone was chattering quietly to itself in a dogwood close to my bedroom window. It made the occasional Carolina Wren-like one-note, but otherwise just kept mostly whispering sweet almost-musical notes, never moving and never showing itself. Meanwhile a family of 4 Carolinas entertained me in the lilac right outside my window - almost silently! The usual locals called including red-eyed and yellow-throated vireos, pewee, and a long-since-gone Veery (house wrens fledged yesterday and disappeared). I turned on Merlin out of curiosity - nothing likely (yellow-billed cuckoo, green heron - doubtful - Merlin can get so creative!) and it did not register Carolina Wren until 7:30!
So, other than that it never moved at all during a half-hour concert, I decided it was an early-migrating Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Sweet!
Angela Dimmitt
New Milford
