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Posted by Jocelyn Posted on Jun - 25 - 2009

The Rowdy of the Meadow

The song of the Bobolink is both strange and delightful, a percussive mix of clinks and warblings heard on warm summer days above unmowed fields. Even his latin name, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, sounds like a phrase from the bubbly babbling if this charismatic blackbird.  A few weekends ago I returned to Grass Lake for another session  [ Read More ]

Categories: Field Sketches