Pic(k) of the Week: Morning bird in winter forsythia

And smale foweles maken melodye

A peripatetic ruby-crowned kinglet (Corthylio calendula) momentarily stops to sing in a forsythia bush, its red crown shining in winter morning light.

Ruby-crowned kinglets typically inhabit northern North America. I spotted this male, however, much farther south (in DeKalb County, Georgia, USA), where it was probably preparing for its imminent migration back north.

26 February 2025.

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Ralph Vaughan-Williams: The Lark Ascending

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• Album: Vaughan Williams / Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields / Neville Marriner (Argo: 1972)
  Musicians:
  • Iona Brown – violin
  • Sir Neville Marriner – conductor
  • Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields – chamber orchestra
  
  
• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of images posted on Saturdays.
• Photo 13 of 52, for year 2025. See a larger, hi-res version on Flickr: here.
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• Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II
• Lens: Lumix G Vario 100-300/F4.0-5.6
• Settings: 286 mm; 1/320 sec; ISO 400; ƒ/5.6


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