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the indigo but sweeter, less strident. It’s a “bright, pleasant warble” according to Mr. Peterson. I agree with the great man on that description.

The nonpariel only occurs regularly along the coast from southeast Virginia to central Florida so don’t expect to see it here in the upper Piedmont. It is quite common throughout east Texas and up into Oklahoma and Louisiana.

Once, in South Texas, near Corpus Christi, when the temperature in early May was nearly 100 degrees, I was photographing birds attracted to the sound of water hitting the broad leaves of a small kumquat tree. The spray, coming from a circular sprinkler that threw water upwards, drew birds like a magnet.

Many bids flew in to drink and bath in the water that collected on the brown leaves on the ground. I made photographs of an Inca dove, Lincoln’s sparrow, Kentucky warbler and a male summer tanager halfway between his winter yellow and summer red plumage. The heat was so intense that I seriously considered leaving my burlap-cov

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