This is Bird Note.

Appiliated woodpecker breaks the silence on a winter morning in South Florida's

Corkscrew Swamp, a mixture of Cypress Swamp and Pineland.

This National Audubon Society sanctuary is birdy any time of the year.

But in winter, it comes alive with migratory songbirds.

On a warm, sunny morning, birds are active all around us from the tops of the tall

cypresses to the shrubs along the boardwalk.

There's a blue gray nat catcher,

foraging in a willow.

It is blown to Corkscrew from a similar swamp in Georgia.

Hire up in a Cypress, a Northern Parallelab,

resplendent in blue,

obberting gold, calls repeatedly.

It may have come from the same Georgia swamp.

An eastern Phoebe calls from a dead branch over the water.

The Phoebe has made a longer flight,

from its nest site on a Pennsylvania stream.

Another small bird moves through the undergrowth,

wagging its tail as it hops from branch to branch.

It's a palm-warbler, all the way from Ontario,

to spend the winter in a place where insects are common,

and there's no chance of snow.

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