And this week, finally, the woodpeckers and, today, the white breasted nuthatch, started using the feeder on the shepherd's crook. It's taken them a year to trust the area after the big dead cherry branch had to be cut before it fell on me. That was their overhead cover from hawks. Very glad to see them back.
Basho haiku today
Skylark on moor
sweet song
of non-attachment
One of my earliest memories is the skylark singing over the moor, so high he was invisible, squinting up to find the little dot in the sky.
And finally, have you tried the Accidental Poetry game? Pick out books, stack them so the titles make a little thought. Like this
You can emphasize it a couple of different ways.
But nothing will ever top the wonderful government statistical publication entitled Population of the British Isles, Broken Down by Age and Sex. Well, aren't we all?
The variety of birds you have sound entertaining. We have a pair of song sparrows who nest in the bushes at the front of the house and sing their hearts out much of the time.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lovely song. I live right in the middle of the Eastern Flyway, so we see many species, and catch spring and fall migrations. Including monarch butterfly migrations, smaller now than years ago.
DeleteI may have to rearrange books now.
ReplyDeletePlease do. And have fun messing about with them.
DeleteI will also try the book poetry.
ReplyDeleteI had a feeling it might appeal to you!
DeleteRight now I'm listening to lake gulls as there is a storm coming in and a protesting Blue Jay. The BJ population is staring to grow again after West Nile and it's nice to hear them.
ReplyDeleteI don't think West Nile affected our regional bird population so much. There were a few cases in corvids and a few humans, too.
DeleteBlue Jays are a indicator species for West Nile and were very much affected here in Ontario. We had a large family of Blue Jays in our fruit trees and it was sad to find dead birds. My husband had West Nile as did a friend's elderly father. I guess some regions had it worse than others.
DeleteNice to hear the birds again after winter. Ours don't really go away as it doesn't get as cold here as over there. Very amused with your poetry.
ReplyDeleteWe have Summer birds and winter birds! The juncoes have pretty much left now, till next fall. Warblers are coming through, snd the summer robins will soon arrive to join the ones who don't migrate. We'll be mobbed!
DeleteI'm going to be looking at my book spines with new eyes now. :) I have been enjoying the birds' songs so much this spring. Everything in nature seems more intense this spring.
ReplyDeleteHave fun with the book poem. You start noticing interesting meaning between titles.
DeleteI think the slowdown in industry has made the air cleaner and the sky clearer. And being confined to home has made everything more vivid.
Reminds me of the letter the old Washington Biological Survey received from someone who had found a dead gull sporting a leg band. "I followed the instructions: Wash, Biol, Surv" - and it didn't turn out very well."
ReplyDeleteWill try some accidental poetry tomorrow - grand idea!
Cheers,
Chris from Boise
Share your results. The poem not the unfortunate gull.
DeleteI've woken up be wren song several mornings lately and I often hear it throughout the day as well. Wonder if there's a nest nearby. Have yet to see the bird because it's in the pine tree somewhere and too small to pick out. Interesting concept using book titles to make poetry!
ReplyDeleteOnce you start noticing the adjacent titles, it starts to be a thing!
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