Warbler Time in Trail Wood

Trail Wood #98 Earl Plato

Early May at Trail Wood in central Connecticut with the Teales. “Sitting on this old log beside the twisting course of Hampton Brook, I have been watching the treetops, observing a small band of warblers darting about, endlessly in motion as they feed among the filmy clouds of newly expanding leaves. Spring sunshine illuminates the woods. The air is warm, filled with the primeval smells of earth in May.
And all the while overhead among the upper twigs and branches, I glimpse the bright little bodies of the warblers, the blue-winged, the chestnut-sided, the black-and-white, the yellowthroat, and he prairie. They start and stop, dart and flutter. Their colors catch the eye. Their clear, carrying, emphatic little voices fill the woods. They are active life in its most visible form on this sunny morning in early May”
Note : In Marcy Woods the trilliums are in bloom. A yellowthroat, a black-and-white warblers are back. The melodious call of a wood thrush calls from the wetlands. A great time.