If you’re out in the country during warm weather, Indigo Buntings will be in your face with their brilliant colors and brilliant song. They never tire of singing.
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Nestlings: Vacuum Packed
Their nest is only an inch and a half wide. For four babies. Eventually, one of them has to squeeze himself loose like the first olive out of a jar. (Hang in there so you get to hear the final triumphant trumpet note!)
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Blue-gray Gnatcatchers: Flibbertigibbets
Blue-gray Gnatcatchers are half the length of a ballpoint pen and weigh no more than a whisper. But they’re fast enough to chase down a dragonfly for dinner.
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Goldfinches in Autumn
Goldfinches are those drab little birds at everybody’s feeder in the fall, right? If that’s what you think, you need to watch this movie. If you know better than to think that, you’ll want to watch the movie.
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House Wrens and Carolina Wrens
Diminutive House Wrens and Carolina Wrens consider themselves barons of the brush pile. They rule with effervescent song. (But the House Wren has a dark side that the Carolina Wren does not.)
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A Carolina Wren Flies
Carolina Wren
You can see the outline of this Carolina Wren’s other wing through the translucent wing in the foreground. And I can all but feel his weight, slight though it is, lifting off as I look at his extended legs and his feet.
Robins Sparring in Spring
These male Robins like hangin’ together, but every few seconds, they flutter up into the air circling each other in mock combat. Soon as they land, they’re best buddies again.
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Of Robins, Elderberries and Spitting Seeds
American Robins love berries. Elderberries are among their favorites. Robins will feast on a patch until the stems resemble a bare winter tree.
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Bird Movies by Jo 