Brown Thrasher, Cherry, Nebraska, United States. "Valentine National Wildlife Refuge - Little Hay Road Wildlife Drive. About 4.5 km east and south from the intersection with State Spur 16b. Marsh on one side, sand hills on the other. About 200 m from open water. ID'd by Sight & Sound; ID confidence 100%." There is a nice counterpoint from the march: maybe insects, maybe frogs.
Contact information for plants: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants. Vegetables are fine! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary plants! If you want your handle to appear as a credit, please place it at the start of your mail in parentheses: (thus). Otherwise, I will anonymize by using your initials. See the previous Water Cooler (with plant) here. From anahuna:
Anahuna writes: "I thought to take this last opportunity to send a plant or two or three. While I delight in the country scenes you've been gracing us with, I'm confined to the urban cityscape, and I've included one aggressively urban sample from a fence that has since been knocked down to make way for one of the tall new steel-and-glass high-rises. All these emerge, one way or aother, from the streets near the Gowanus Canal."
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