Green Heron

blue and red feathers,

yellow eyes, and a black beak:

     why a Green Heron?

Yellow-throated Warbler

the singing tongue of
a Yellow-throated Warbler
is more often heard

Black-throated Blue Warbler

autumn equinox:
a Black-throated Blue Warbler
hiding in an oak

Common Yellowthroat

Common Yellowthroat
among the lakeside willows
- the first day of fall

Palm Warbler

two more summer days:
darting around the college
the first Palm Warbler

Tufted Titmouse

making such a fuss
more than its size would suggest
the Tufted Titmouse

Summer Tanager

Summer Tanager

gorging on Florida's fruit

for strength to go south

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

the dancer's pose of

a tiny forest yogi:

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Prairie Warbler

                         I know you didn't

                         follow me to work today,

                         Prairie Warbler, yet . . .

Prairie Warbler

                  this Prairie Warbler -

                  can one tell if he's native

                  or has just flown in?

American Redstart

fall breezes in as
an American Redstart
flies from limb to limb

Yellow-throated Warbler

I didn't intend -
O Yellow-throated Warbler -
to make you angry

Yellow-throated Warbler & Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

     Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

     with Yellow-throated Warbler

     chasing the same bugs

American Avocet

    a lone migrating
    American Avocet
    flies along the shore
 

Carolina Wren

September morning

a Carolina Wren perched

right by the back door

Green Heron

                          the very long neck

                          conveniently collapses

                          for a Green Heron

Tricolered Heron

must feel he's hidden
behind a few blades of grass
Tricolored Heron

Blue Grosbeaks

on the graveyard's edge

the September Blue Grosbeaks

in the untrimmed hedge