The Lucky Robin ...

“I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

                 ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

                           ~ 1882- 1945

  ~ 32^nd President of the United States of America

                                    ~ 1933-1945

A beautiful robin catches a worm for supper on an early summer evening in late June at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The Four Musketeers ...

“My heart is like a singing bird.”

                     ~ Christina Rossetti

                                ~ 1830-1894

Four precious young barn swallows peek over their nest in a barn at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania on an August afternoon.

The barn swallow is a bird of open country that normally uses man-made structures to breed. It builds a cup nest from mud pellets in barns or similar structures.

Spring Supper ...

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

               ~ Aesop

         ~ Born 620 B.C., died 564 B.C.

A Small Green Heron fishes its supper out of the pond on a beautiful spring evening in early June at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.