Blue-grey GnatcatcherLike last week's BPW, this was photographed at Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples, FL.
I'm dreaming of warmer climates as winter has descended up on us here in New England, (with temperatures in the teens this weekend and an ice storm this past Friday that has knocked out power to thousands of people) and remembering when Pamela and I were in Florida last January. Early one morning this sweet little bird was performing it's morning ablutions in the dew that had collected overnight on the leaves. He would hop to a wet leaf, rub himself again it soaking up the water, then shake it all off, and move on to the next leaf.
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4 comments:
Nice shot and writeup. I`m looking forward to warmer weather too...here temperatures are in sigle digits. Makes it hard to get out of bed, let alone go birding.
That is such a cute shot.
I guess I can't complain about our 48 degree, rainy weather here in California. :-)
They are quite the cute bird to watch. We have temps this week in the 20's with a nasty wind chill on top of that. Winter has finally arrived here in western WA state.
Cleaning itself with dew - how cool.
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