I agree with Ravi Potluri and Mike Flom -- Eastern Phoebe. Any dissenters?

Marsh Warden Mike Limatola and I are doing our first-Saturday-of-the-month on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 8 a.m.

All participants will receive a brand-new, second-edition, full-color Celery Farm brochure, and we'll have 2014 Celery Farm calendars for sale as well!

We'll have a spotting scope or two, but bring binoculars if you have them.

Note: We suggest wearing long sleeves, long pants, socks and shoes to reduce the chances of ticks.

The walks begin at the end of Green Way (a right turn off of northbound Franklin Turnpike, just before Crescent Avenue).  (Directions are in the left-hand column.)

The walks are sponsored by the Fyke Nature Association, which helps maintain the Celery Farm, and the Concerned Citizens of Allendale, which saved the Fell House and its 2.8-acre property from becoming a townhouse development.

E-mail Jim Wright here to rsvp or get more info. Check this blog, celeryfarm.net, for updates, last-minute weather advisories for the walk, and directions to the Celery Farm, Green Way and the Fell House.

We hope to see you on Saturday. Listing follows.

What's this?  Photographed by Max Amos-Flom near the Celery Farm.

Another view follows.

Ravi Potluri writes:

We live in Rio Vista, right next to the Celery Farm, and have had a great time so far enjoying the abundant bird life that we can see without stepping out of our house.

 Much to our consternation though, we have found a dead bird on our porch each of the last 4 days. A dove, a female goldfinch, a Red-eyed Vireo, and today a cardinal. There was no such incident the first 5 weeks we have been here.

 Would you have any idea on why this may be happening, and what we may be able to do to stop this phenomenon?

This may be a night time phenomenon, but we are not sure.

My first guess is window strikes, but hard to explain why all of a sudden and four days in a row.  Does anyone have any ideas?

We'll be selling the new 2014 Celery Farm calendars at the parking lot on Franklin Turnpike from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday morning.

They are beautiful, they cost just $15, and the proceeds benefit the Lillian and Stiles Thomas Scholarship Fund at Northern Highlands High School. Hope to see you there!