While reading my email this morning during the pouring rain, I noted a very wet (but still singing) white-throated sparrow (white stripe version), and an equally soggy chipping sparrow sitting on the same branch of a tamarack outside my office. Then a very natty B&W warbler came bopping along a branch of the same tree, seemingly oblivious to the rain. He was soon off to another tree, and disappeared into the mist. We live in the Uplands area of Thornhill, and this is the first winter we have had white-throats winter over (3), but now that they have been joined by migrants (there were 6 in the garden a couple of mornings ago, with several others singing in the trees), I can't tell which is which. There has been singing for a couple of weeks --- does this bode well for a local nesting?
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