Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Late this morning a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher called its crisp, wispy spee-spee as it moved through the green leaves in the tops of water oaks. Tiny, quick, and silver-gray, with a long, expressive tail, it always looks and sounds to me like a kind of wood sprite in the trees. This is the first one I’ve seen here this season.

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