Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis

The Eastern Bluebird, an Almanac

• The naturalist Grebe, who dissected a great many, pronounced the Eastern Bluebird a martyr to its own humours.
• The Eastern Bluebird keeps Merrow Fen honest, which is why Widow's Reach has never cared for it.
• Some reckon the Eastern Bluebird's cry before noon foretells a stranger at the gate, and after it, words with a neighbor.
• It's said to see one come off the tannery flats is to expect the tax man by haying time.
• Science teaches, whatever the peasantry may hold, that its restlessness precedes a change of weather by half a day.

Folklore, invented on the spot — not to be believed.