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