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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Los Liones 9215

....C. J. Maynard (1896) immortalized it in this beautiful passage:

"I heard a low warbling which sounded like the distant song of some bird I had never heard before. . . . And nothing could be more appropriate to the delicate marking and size of the tiny fairy-like bird than this silvery warble which filled the air with sweet, continuous melody. I was completely surprised, for I never imagined that any bird was capable of producing notes so soft and so low, yet each one given with such distinctness that the ear could catch every part of the wondrous and complicated song. I watched him for some time, but he never ceased singing, save when he sprung into the air to catch some insect."

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Uploaded on September 13, 2015
Taken on September 12, 2015