3/21/2013

Today's pond report.  On Sunday a very rare bird was spotted in my yard.  It's a fieldfare, native to northern Europe.  It's a thrush, and when it visits the U.S. (I think there are only five confirmed visits, including this one) it hangs with the robins.  The fieldfare is not in this report (I may have seen it at my suet feeder, but I am not a birder and I can't be sure).  The birders are, along with several extraordinarily common birds: