Barred Owl - Dignified Profile

Great Blue Heron, Crow Hill Pond, Leominster, MA.

"Hope Is the Thing With Feathers"

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

Common Goldeneye (female) - Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Common Goldeneye - Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Hooded Merganser (male and female) - Ashby, Massachusetts

Turkey Vulture - Leominster State Forest

GREAT BLUE HERON - LEOMINSTER STATE FOREST

Common Grackles - Ashby, Massachusetts

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