Gray Catbirds
by Sandra Huston
Title
Gray Catbirds
Artist
Sandra Huston
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This is a pair of Gray Catbirds that I captured perching on top of our bird house out back of our home early in the morning. Gray Catbirds are relatives of mockingbirds and thrashers, and share that groups vocal abilities, copying the sounds of other species and stringing them together to make their own song. You can find Gray Catbirds in shrubs, small trees, forest edges and on fence rows. We have a pair each year come and nest in May as I have suet out that they seem to love and trees and fences all around my garden. There usually gone by September/October and it is known that they winter in southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. I truly enjoy watching them as they have a lot of personality and such a variety of musical and catlike mewing sounds. I have found the male Gray Catbird to be bolder jerking its long tail expressively while the female is much more timid and watchful. If you would like to hear the sound of a Gray Catbird click on this link: http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/gray-catbird and scroll to the bottom of the right hand side of the page under songs.
Honored to be featured in the following Fine Art America groups:
* Greeting Cards For All Occasions
* FAA Portraits - Birds
* Images That Excite You
* New England Photographs
* Wild Birds of the World
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May 23rd, 2016
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Comments (8)
Sandra Huston
Thank you Kristin Hatt for choosing "Gray Catbirds" as one of your personal favorites, your vote is much appreciated!
Sandra Huston
Thank you Elizabeth Dow, for the Feature in FAA's group "New England Photographs", much appreciated.
Sandra Huston
Thank you John for the feature in FAA's group "Images That Excite You", much appreciated. :)
Sandra Huston
Thank you Scott, for the feature in our group "FAA Portraits - Birds", much appreciated.