Seeking the new

Brown Thrasher  at Windswept Bog

 I love a new experience. It may be why I love birding.  There is elation at hearing or seeing a bird that I’ve never seen before, or that I rarely see.  It makes the day somehow special and memorable.

I know that soras and rails are at Milestone Bog, but I have never seen one there, despite the hundred times I’ve hiked there.  Until I did..,yesterday!  “You never step in the same river twice,” but hearing  the sora  made it  really true.

Birding also is comforting when birds are where we’ve seen them before…like the killdeer near the sand exchange pool at the bog…or the pine warbler in every pine stand this weekend.

But there is special love for the new…like the brown thrasher in the path at Windswept Bog this morning…the light wasn’t good enough to get a great picture,  but I didn’t even get a picture of the sora!  ( will I be “trimbled” for that, given that it’s a rara avis?)

Birders even go in for “FOY”, first of year  birds , in their hug of their favorite birds and landscapes.  I guess it’s all firsts here  today…