This is the first of a group of pictures from this morning: a lifting late-spring fog in an area of wetlands in Harwinton CT. All around this spot were the songs of Blue-winged Warblers. This creek is the East Branch of Lead Mine Brook.
Lead Mine Brook
JOHN TODARO 
Beautiful composition and toning, John.
Thanks Ken. It was one of those mornings that make you grateful that cameras exist
A serene and calming image with a tad of ominous thrown in.
That’s a good observation. As painters figured out centuries ago, landscapes have the ability to stir up complex things with our emotions.
Great picture
Thanks Phyllis! 👋
Great, the mist yet the sharpness of the water reflections.
Good comment Geoff, thanks
East Coast warblers, I miss them! It must have been a lovely morning.
It’s been a good migration year, I’d say. I heard my first-ever Cerulean Warbler song a few days ago
Cool! I’m not sure I ever even saw a Cerulean. I used to know some warbler songs, but not many. There are far fewer here but I still can’t seem to learn any of them. 😉
The phone app Merlin is helpful this time of the year when the birds are singing. It’s not 100% reliable, but it can definitely help with warbler songs. The Luddite part of me resisted at first, but now I’m enjoying the learning process 😊
I’ve had it for several years. I’m often too distracted to focus in on learning and remembering songs and I know Merlin’s not always right, but I enjoy the app. Once in a while, it picks up something I didn’t hear, which is fun. Other times, it refuses to pick up the song I’m curious about and I get mad at it. 😉 Peterson’s bird guides used to have graphic representations of bird’s songs on each page. I really liked them. The idea of representing sound visually was/is fascinating.
Yes, for the forty years preceding Merlin we used Peterson’s. 😊 Did I ever mention Marguerite’s MS thesis was on suburban bird communities of Nassau County? Not sure if it was Joe’s neck of the woods (north shore)…
No, I don’t recall hearing about that thesis, cool! Joe was brought up in Queens – the Flushing area. It was suburban in feeling back then and, of course, it’s completely different now. He remembers an Asian family moving in nearby – the dad was an MD – and the neighbors shunned them. It was very Irish/Italian. Joe’s sister & one brother both married Italians. Marguerite’s thesis probably encompassed Port Washington, where Joe’s sister lives now and where my mother grew up. Also, Joe lived in Bayville when I met him in 2009. They used to cordon off part of the beach there for Piping plovers every spring (maybe they still so). I remember a prominent Osprey nest on a pole on the way in to Port Washington – that’s not long ago.
Her thesis did encompass parts of Port Washington. They’re still roping off nesting areas for Piping Plovers all around LI and unleashed dogs and hostile beach drivers can also still be found. I didn’t realize you guys met in 2009. Joe has an interesting story and family history. I have good memories of working for the National Park Service at Sagamore. I’m sure he knows those grounds well…
And I wonder if my mother ever visited Sagamore…she probably did. Speaking of wildlife, she talked about the Horseshoe crabs at Jones Beach when she was a child, back in the 1920s! I suspect they’re doing a lot better than the Piping plovers. I just read an article this morning about some Piping plover nests that were lost in a storm with extra high tides recently on Cape Cod. But the article said overall they are on the increase.