March 25, 2022 For the first time this year, the Big Yard hosted 40 species of birds today—it’s looking like a 60-species month. But if I were to choose one bird to mark the day, I would pick the painted redstart. The warbler, newly arrived from Mexican pine forests as far south as the Mayan highlands, fans and flicks the white feathers of its tail and wings as it pivots among the bud-fat stems of the apple tree searching for emerging caterpillars and bees.
Yes, indeed! What a gorgeous bird!
Yes!