I hereby nominate the Hermit Thrush as the mascot of the post summer season.
When this beautiful bird shows up in the backyard, sporting its crunchy-leaved color tones, I know that autumn has officially made its arrival.
These thrushes aren’t bold or bright, but are lovely in a more subtle kind of way.
Here’s hoping he blesses me with many more appearances.
Backyard Bird Nerd 
The beautiful songsters of the spring forest!
I just read a really engaging book called, We Should All Be Birds. It’s by Brian Buckbee, who has a chronic auto-immune disease, and on his journey, he allows pigeons into his house. I think your relationship with birds is very different than his, but he has some lovely things to say…