Red breasted nuthatches called continuously from coniferous trees, robins sang, juncoes flitted along the roadside, and yellow-rumped warblers forages through the tree tops. The birding highlight, however, was seeing my first hermit thrushes for the spring. They flew among the coniferous trees, displaying their reddish tails and chirping loudly. I will visit again during the late evening. It is then that I can sit by the lake and listen to their haunting, flutelike notes as they carol their evensong.
Hermit thrushes are also know as the nightengales of our woodlands.