In the morning on the last day of June, a Yellow-throated Vireo sang in the treetops around the edge of the woods behind our neighbor\u2019s house and ours, the first time I\u2019ve heard one in several weeks \u2013 and I\u2019ve missed them this summer, so it was a particular pleasure to hear.<\/p>\n
The mellow four-phrase song sounded rich and full, a riper version of the Red-eyed Vireo\u2019s crisp refrain.<\/p>\n
With its bright yellow throat and yellow spectacles around the eyes, greenish-gray head and back, and white wing bars, a Yellow-throated Vireo is one of our more colorful summer birds, rather sturdy in shape.<\/p>\n
Much later, as a long, cloudy twilight faded, lots of lightning bugs flashed low over the grass and up into the lower branches of trees, and two bats circled over open areas, against a murky orange and pink sky. Cicadas still sang, and a few katydids were beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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