Hooded Warbler

Indigo Bunting

Prothonotary Warbler

Louisiana Waterthrush

a puddle transforms

when a Louisiana

Waterthrush arrives

Worm-eating Warbler

in sunlight, the head

of a Worm-eating Warbler

          look like a pecan

Cedar Waxwings

just after I found

that the gardener had killed

the flame vine, they arrived

Nothern Flicker

drumming in the palm
a Northern Flicker pops out
and begins to call

Hooded Warbler

a striking contrast

is often the attraction:

the Hooded Warbler

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Common Grackle

  

the the pattern of light
in a Common Grackle's eye

shows the horizon

Northern Harrier

swiftly threading through

the labyrinthine mangroves

Northern Harrier

Yellow-throated Vireo

for ants, beautiful

Yellow-throated Vireos,

ephemeral joys

Brown Thrasher

Cedar Waxwings

                                   Brown Thrasher, so loud
                                   a flock of Cedar Waxwings
                                   fly into his song

Black Hooded Parakeets

                            intense beak play, then

                            Black-hooded Parakeets mate

                            gently and slowly

 

Blue-crowned Parakeet

clinging to its perch

the Blue-crowned Parakeet fights

the Ides-of-March winds

Monk Parakeet

the Monk Parakeet

with a mouthful of palm fruit

on the graveyard snag

Short-tailed Hawk

twisting and turning

in their aerial spring rites

dark morph Short-tailed Hawks