Pine Warbler’s Song
On a bright, sunny, very cold morning, a Pine Warbler sang – a warm, rich trill that filled the bare, gray, winter-rough branches of the trees in the woods with the music and color of spring.
A pair of Brown-headed Nuthatches chattered as they shared the feeder in our front yard with a Downy Woodpecker and a Carolina Chickadee. Several Chipping Sparrows and two White-throated Sparrows scratched on the ground for seeds below the feeder. Dark-eyed Juncos twittered and foraged under the hedge of wax myrtles. A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, with crimson throat and crown and a yellow-flushed belly, worked its way up the trunk and over large branches of a pecan tree riddled with sapsucker holes.