Jun. 16—As expected with the warming temperatures and greening in the end of May, we experienced a large movement of songbirds returning from their southern wintering sites. The flights began in April ...

Perhaps the best description of the catbird is “uniformly gray” – but only in appearance. Certainly not in vocalization. The catbird has a remarkable repertoire, including the familiar mewing noises ...

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Say ‘scat’ to a cat and it runs away. Say ‘scat’ to a catbird and it starts to improvise. It’s a hepcat bird. These all-gray bird, black-beret-wearing birds can sing for minutes at a time, although it ...

They are singing whether or not we listen. On this warm, bright morning, a robin spills his curlicue song from the top of a poplar in the neighbor’s yard. In the white caves of the blooming crabapple, ...

Each morning during June, we are treated to an elaborate and diverse avian chorus. The best time to hear the birds is in the very early morning hours -- before 8 a.m., while the winds are still calm.

A colleague recently asked me about a bird he had heard near his yard that sounded like the meow of a cat. Gray catbird, I told him. If it sounds like a cat and looks like a bird, it's a catbird. I ...