From all appearances, the Gray Catbird doesn’t look like a stand out at Magee Marsh like the Yellow Warbler and Prothonotary Warbler with their bright yellow feathers. But stand out it does. Not from its appearance but from its song…like a meowing cat, hence, I presume, its common name. It is a persistent sound, a mewing and actual meowing that at first is mere background noise until it is suddenly all you can hear. On several occasions at Magee Marsh in June, I would be focused on a bird when I would realize that all I could hear was the Catbird’s persistent meowing. Maybe it was trying to get me to pay attention to it. Well, it worked. It’s kind of a cute little bird and I swear, if I didn’t know it was a Gray Catbird I was hearing, I’d be convinced it was a four-legged cat calling out to be fed.