Gray Catbird

photographed late summer 2020 in North Carolina, USA.

i love these birds for their funny, yowling calls (the reason for their name). last summer i tried over and over to catch one of them eating from the cherry tree down the road, but only saw them there when i had no camera. this one was in my yard, deep within the foliage of a large silver maple.

i'll try again for a feeding shot in the cherry tree this summer.