TODAY I WAS A BIRDWATCHER. The small gray-brown birds may be song sparrows...or some kind of thrasher. I'll be happy to learn what kinds of birds these are if anyone seeing the BLOG today will let me know.
AN ORIOLE PERHAPS?
BRUTE NEIGHBORS

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns... You need only sit long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

--Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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