Hi All,

The big event on the farm this morning besides the peas emerging from their 4/19 seeding and their first cultivation, was a Rufous Sided Towhee, now apparently, renamed Eastern Towhee. We spent nearly half an hour with this bird following it along the wooded, shrubby fence line between our fields known as Indigo Junction. The last I saw it was high up at the top of a hundred foot tall cherry tree, preening itself. I will tell you though, this Towhee has been drinking more than tea. It’s song was only a vague resemblance to the recorded calls from Cornell.  Perhaps the cold required a little morning schnapps. 

Also, in and near Indigo Junction were all three of the Mimidae: Brown Thrasher, Catbird, and Northern Mockingbird. 

I invite you all to the farm to help educate this old farmer. 

Time to seed Pea 2.
Tim

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