THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Warblers, Lemonade and Surf

The big-beaked Tipper flapped out of the White House in a huff the other day and may not come back until fall. To heck with him. There was a robin that built a nest in a fig tree on the North Portico, raised a brood of four, flew off to the East Porch and did it all over again in a juniper. She loves the place and will return next year, or so believes Fred Evenden, Executive Director of the Wildlife Society, who has been watching the Robin all this summer.

A mourning dove has set up housekeeping...

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