Purple martins and fashionably up-to-date gourds. June 7, 2019 Purple martins and fashionably up-to-date gourds. “The sunsets come, the sunsets go.The clouds pile high, the air moves slow.And the young bird’s eyes do always know.”Lyrics by It’s A Beautiful Day. It’s always a plumb pleasure for me to see a cedar waxwing. An oriole and an orange go together like copy and paste. ← This Great Crested Flycatcher makes a call that sounds as if it’s accusing me of being a creep. I hope the bird isn’t a keen judge of character.The bill color difference between a drake and a hen mallard is striking. →