Gray Catbird
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I know many of you are missing one of your summer’s interesting songs of the Gray Catbird. I can happily report many are here in Florida enjoying their winter vacation.
I can hear them just about everywhere I wander, following their ‘mew’ calls, then spotting them doing short flights in shrubs, thickets and vegetation, always hiding behind branches and leaves. They are so secretive!
Finally one gave me a chance out in the open. I took it!
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Gray Catbird
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What a great pose! “This is definitely my best side.” 😉
The modeling agency has already called! 😉
I can believe it! 😉
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Superb shot! In the summer, I often hear this bird in our backyard but the moment I bring the camera out, they disappear. Very elusive!
Thank you, Hien, they are great teasers!
A beautiful capture, with the very classic bird eye view Donna. Your catbird is very different from ours which is one of the Bowerbird family.
Thank you, Ashley! This one really teased me, but kept staying with me, it must have been curious of me. 🙂
What a beautiful look you had! Great shot, Donna! I haven’t seen this bird in the wild but I’d love to see one.
Thank you, Deborah! They definitely make you work for a shot of them! 🙂
I always loved them but it was years before I knew they had a beautiful song too. Very nice catch, they just don’t like being out where you can photo them. 😀😀
Thank you, Ted! They are camera-shy! 🙂
Another gorgeous shot, Donna. 😊
Thank you, Irene! 😊
This one is sitting in the catbird seat presumably.
You got that right!
It’s a good looking bird! Great shot, Donna. 🙂
Thank you, HJ! 🙂
Awwwww! I got a photo of a Gray Catbird when we went to Florida last October! I didn’t know what it was and I just ID’d him a few days ago! You got such a pretty photo. I don’t think I heard his mew, but I got a nice photo of him. 😎
Thank you, Lisa! Congrats on capturing one too, these birds are great teasers, but still curious of us. 🙂
What a great capture Donna, makes me want the spring return now.
Thank you, Hans! Sending warm vibes your way to get that Spring started. 🙂
A “eureka’ moment!!😀 😀
Great shot, Donna!!
For sure!! Thank you, Indira!! 😁
Nice to meet the cat bird, we don’t know him here in Belgium.
You would love to hear them, Rudi, they sound like a cat meowing in the bushes. 🙂
Nice Donna! Great Catbird image!
Thank you, Reed!
Great capture!!
Thank you, Isabel!!
Great image! You helped me remember the mews from one particular bush on a valley trail.
Thank you, Jane! Aren’t they cool sounding!
Yes! At first it sounded like my pet budgie chattering away to itself, then I heard the distinctive “mews”
I love gray catbirds and do miss them in the winter. This is a fantastic picture — great capture! I’ve never been able to get one out in the open like this. (The picture on my sidebar is the best I could ever do…)
Thank you, Barbara! I seldom see them out in the open either. And guess what, yesterday we had to run an errand, I sat in the car while hubby went into the store, and a gray catbird was on the curb alongside the car. (and yes, I took photos lol, surely a different shot for my catbird folder! hehe)
I love these guys. Their appearance isn’t remarkable, but their sound is!
Thank you, I agree!!!