Sitting in the Catbird Seat

The Gray Catbird in my Garden

Illustration by Allan Brooks from The Book of Birds, Eds. Gilbert Grosvenor and Alexander Wetmore, published by the National Geographic Society, 1939. Detail, upper left corner obscured to remove a bluebird tail.

As I write, a gray catbird has been singing in my yard all morning, as it has most mornings for the past few weeks. Since my eyesight is not gr…