Veery (Catharus fuscescens), at Wehr Nature Center at Whitnall Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata) at Wehr Nature Center at Whitnall Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
White-breasted nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) at Wehr Nature Center at Whitnall Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Emerging leaves and catkins.
White oak (Quercus alba), at Wehr Nature Center in Whitnall Park, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
Fiddlehead.
https://open.spotify.com/track/3PwBUYcJN1t9YF9I6xVSVW?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
“Papagena! Papagena! Papagena! Weibchen! Täubchen!” from Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
This 1965 recording was the one I first heard.
Conducted by Karl Böhm, leading the Berliner Philharmoniker. Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is Papageno, and Lisa Otto his Papagena. Their duet begins at 5:29 on this track.
The Queen of the Night’s Hall of Stars.
Set design for Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, ca. 1815. From the
Kupferstichkabinett (prints and drawings) collection at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Papageno.
Illustration of costume design for Papageno from an 1816
Berlin Staatsoper
production of The Magic Flute. This image is widely distributed across the internet, and is available as a poster from Amazon. This is not a paid endorsement. It is not an endorsement at all.
Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris var. “Papageno”), at Boerner Botanical Gardens, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The thrashiest bird.
I just made that word up. This gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) would not stay still for a photo.
Catbirds are in the Mimidae family, a group that includes mockingbirds and thrashers, so there are profound similarities of body plan and behavior among them. For one, they thrash (a lot!), stirring up the leaf litter in search of food. Like other mimids, they also compose songs made up of snippets and phrases of the songs they hear other bird species singing. And they famously make a call that sounds like a meowing cat. You can hear samples of catbird songs and calls here.
Gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), at Boerner Botanical Gardens, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dithyramb 