I went out this morning hoping to get a picture of some of the thrushes. There were a number in and around my apple tree, but as I was looking up into the branches, I spotted a small, obscure feathered mass. An owl! Specifically a northern saw-whet owl. I was excited, because I'd never seen a wild owl in my life. I had to show the kids, and they're like, "OMG, maybe it has a message tied to its leg!"
The picture could be better, of course, but my camera is now, on top of everything else, semi-broken: the zoom no longer works.
Okay, a few updates: here are a few more pictures from today. The first is a pair of Carolina wrens, taken by my photographic assistant Mimi:
Here's a hermit thrush:
And finally, another rare juxtaposition (remember the ovenbird and catbird one?), a downy woodpecker and the aforementioned owl:
