Who wrote this piece? It is incredibly well done via its unusually visual descriptions. I live in Manhattan and have never experienced a catbird sighting (or hearing). Thanks so much for the photo and interesting information!
We're starting in NYC, but will expand to all cities once we get the template right. All free to use.
We'd love to hear your stories of nature encounters in the city, and to link to your sites and work! Just email me a note at erik (at of course) naturecalendar (oh the dot) org!
Catbirds are so cool. I think they're better mockers than mockingbirds. In my old place, I used to listen to one of them, on a cool Spring/Summer Weekend morning, early, work through his repetoire. Most were other bird calls, but then he did a gull and THEN a Canadian Honker!!!
...which was nothing once you heard him try to imitate that varied-siren car alarm!!!!
i love catbirds. through my semi-obsessive reading about bird/human interactions in the northeast in the past hundred years, i have read indications that catbirds used to shy away from people, but that fruit-planted gardens and suet-laden birdfeeding stations seem to have made them increasingly less shy in their behavior in cities and suburbs.
or, as a book put it, "if you have fruit planted in your garden, you've probably already met your local catbird."
I saw one in my backyard today! We've got some kind of berry bush out there it was snacking from. I wouldn't have known what it was if not for the wife's lovely photo.
Thanks Sweetie! I actually just got my mail now. It was very late, which was a mean thing for the mailman to do on my Birthday. I didn't get anything from the Great North, though. Maybe tomorrow.
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I bet if you took a long walk in Central Park, paying close attention to the shrubbiest parts, you would see some catbirds.
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I'm working on a project that might interest you -- http://www.naturecalendar.org and soon http://www.naturecommunity.org (nothing on the second site yet).
We're starting in NYC, but will expand to all cities once we get the template right. All free to use.
We'd love to hear your stories of nature encounters in the city, and to link to your sites and work! Just email me a note at erik (at of course) naturecalendar (oh the dot) org!
Warm regards,
Erik
Erik Baard
http://www.naturecalendar.org
http://www.licboathouse.org (another thing I started, this one as a volunteer project)
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...which was nothing once you heard him try to imitate that varied-siren car alarm!!!!
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or, as a book put it, "if you have fruit planted in your garden, you've probably already met your local catbird."
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Been to get your mail today?
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Can't wait to see you next week.
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Stupid unnamed online retailer and their promises of next-day shipping! A curse on them.
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