Posts Tagged ‘birds’
Shadow Shot Sunday
Thanksgiving Day (in the USA; Portland, Oregon to be exact) was sodden. Yesterday we had four times our average rain (0.86 in vs. 0.20 in) and I’d thought it was to continue all week and weekend. But, Friday was lovely, so here is a fresh shadow. (I’m obsessing on bare trees and crows at the moment. [...]
‘I and the Bird’ and poetry
I and the Bird #113 includes a snippet of one of my bird poems about bushtits. Go read the entire post. It has lots of bird poetry! (This is a photo from a while back. Recently the sun hasn’t been shining and there have been a couple dozen bushtits feeding at this and a nearby [...]
perhaps once a year, if I’m lucky
Perhaps once a year, if I’m lucky, I’ll get to see cedar waxwings. And that is only recently, in the last three years. One year I saw them on the Christmas Bird Count in Lake Oswego. The other two times have been in my backyard. Wait. Make that four times, and once the bird was [...]
stretching truth to find truth
Traveling Incognito The bus driver drops you Where you need to go Not the stop you ask for. Sometimes you start out with Sneakers and an umbrella And end up in heels and new Lipstick, a shrieking black shine Matches raven feathers, refracts A desert highway one state past. Sometimes you end up at your [...]
I like vultures, I really do!
International Vulture Awareness Day 2009 is hosting a blog festival on September 5. IVAD09 invites you to blog about vultures. Write, film, draw or photograph Old or New World vultures and share your post with the world. The IVAD09 blog festival will start on September 4 at 19:00 UTC/GMT/Zulu time. Mr Linky will be here [...]
Portland Christmas Bird Count this Saturday
Yep, it’s that time of year ago when ardent birdwatchers, young & old, beginners & expert, spend the day counting birds. It’s true. The annual Christmas Bird Count is conducted by over 55,000 participants across the US. Birders will comb the parks, open spaces, wetlands, rivers and neighborhoods looking for birds. At the end of [...]
