A red-bellied woodpecker called outside the bedroom window early this morning. When I go to get the paper, at least one pileated woodpecker is finding food in a pine tree on weekend mornings. Last week as I left for work at 7am, I could hear blue grosbeaks calling. I will listen for them again tomorrow.
I have heard crows talk to each other in a soft, low conversational call. It sounds like an owl far away. I have not been able to find any recordings of this call on Merlin or Cornell Bird Lab, but I have heard it so many times and seen the crow that was calling that I am now sure it is them. "Sweet like a crow."
Even though we have cold weather moving through, the songbirds started calling in January, as if they know it's not too early in Florida to think about finding a mate. The cardinals are usually first up and last to turn in at night.
I went for a walk just now and delighted in an ibis flying across a lawn, a small group of blackbirds high in a tree, and the gray light under heavy clouds. "The dark days also have I loved."
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