Two Hermit Thrushes and One Brown Creeper
Further up the road, two Hermit Thrushes called chrup over and over again from a thicket of small trees and bushes near the roadside. One perched out in the open on a branch in a cedar, a beautiful view of its spotted breast and wide-eyed face.
As I turned into our driveway, a Mockingbird and a male Bluebird seemed to tangle briefly in a sharp buzzing exchange – each flying to a different tree – and I wondered what that was about. Several Dark-eyed Juncos flushed up from foraging on the ground, into the trees, and two Brown-headed Nuthatches shared one of the feeders with Chipping sparrows. As I was watching the Nuthatches, behind them on the trunk of a pine appeared one of the best surprises of the morning – a Brown Creeper. It crept quickly almost straight up the trunk, staying in view for several seconds, then finally spiraled around and out of sight, and I lost it, probably flown to a nearby tree.