This morning my friend Paul and I walked down to sanctuary. Even before seven the sun was demonstrating its heat. As I was pointing out the ripening Black Hawthorn (Crataegus douglasii) berries and speaking of their attraction for fruit-eating birds, several Cedar Waxwings and a couple of robins descended on the berries and proved my point. One of the robins was showing the speckled breast that designates it as a juvenile and also shows why the American Robin (Turdus migratorius) is a member of the thrush family that includes other speckled breast species such as Swainson's and Hermit Thrushes.
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