Hermit Thrush

Catharus guttatus

First view, Presque Isle, Marquette, Michigan, 3 October 2010.

Another view, Shades State Park, Montgomery County, Indiana, 20 February 2006 (an early date); here, is another shot of this bird.

Another view, my yard, South McClellan, Marquette, Michigan, 6 October 2010.

Another view, Beluga Slough, Homer, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, 30 May 2021.

For some time I thought there was time

and that there would always be time

for what I had a mind to do

and what I could imagine

going back to and finding it

as I had found it the first time

but by this time I do not know

what I thought when I thought back then

there is not time yet it grows less

there is the sound of rain at night

arriving unknown in the leaves

once without before or after

then I hear the thrush waking

at daybreak singing the new song

—W.S. Merwin

The New Song