[mou] oven bird

[Thomas Maiello]

Have been delightfully blessed with the continued appearance of an 
Ovenbird in my back yard arbor.  For all the "teacher-teacher-teacher" I 
have heard at piercing volumes at what seemed to be arm's reach, I am 
grateful that one would so proudly strut it's stuff for me day-after-day 
for the last week and a half.  I am surprised that it is so small.  I 
was sure for the volume that it had to be thrush-sized.  If opera 
singers could proportionately wail as loudly as this little guy, opera 
houses would have to built with reinforced concrete of revolutionary 
strength with OSHA required hearing protection even across the street.  
Fortunately, my little visitor is mute during this visit.  What a 
beautiful bird! - and only some 6 feet away out my home office window.  LPG.

Thomas Maiello