Hello, tweets.

Last summer I had a distinctively marked male American Robin in my
yard, with showy white eyerings. I photographed it in March and April
and saw it well into the summer, although I don't know if it bred
successfully or not. I didn't keep track of when it disappeared, but
it was some time in late summer.

But this afternoon I looked out in the front yard and there it was
again, presumably a newly arrived migrant back from who knows where!
It's really neat when you can recognize an individual bird by one of
its own features. That's certainly the major reward of bird banding,
individually recognizable birds that give us an insight into their
lives.

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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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