I love your abundant and varied bird population - it is so cool to notice them and really watch their behavior throughout the year - to watch their story unfold on a regular basis.
We live beside a river here in Idaho and also enjoy watching herons and barn swallows building nests under bridges. Our vicious little hummingbirds returned about a month ago and I always wonder if I should wear goggles when I walk past their feeders. I tease my wife about filling the feeders with Mountain Dew just so I could hear the hummers make micro sonic booms, but I promise that they will get no Mountain Dew from me. They are truly tiny miracles and I still can’t understand how they can fly across the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to the Yucatán Peninsula on one hummingbird tank of fuel.
We also have Canadian geese here who do odd things such as roosting in our Ponderosa pine trees. Eagles roosting on the top of a tree, sure. Hawks roosting in trees, sure. But geese just seem out of place. The wild turkeys here roost in trees at night, and one evening as I watched a flock of turkeys roosting on the branch of an old apple tree, the branch broke and they all dropped to the ground like feathery basketballs.
We don’t get t.v. here and choose not to have cable, but we do get the bird channel and it always makes me happy, and especially happy when I hear a meadow lark in the early evening or watch a flock of our little mountain quail come in for a landing on a frozen pond in the winter. Lots of skids and tumbles. They seem so serious about it that it seems unkind to laugh at them, but you need a heart of stone not to laugh.
What a beautiful world in which we live, and thank you for reminding us of that.
Photos and story out of sync sounds like a reflection of the way life really is, rather than a perfectly aligned narrative we try to present to the world. I'll happily listen to any story you want to tell.
I love your abundant and varied bird population - it is so cool to notice them and really watch their behavior throughout the year - to watch their story unfold on a regular basis.
Lovely, Karen.
We live beside a river here in Idaho and also enjoy watching herons and barn swallows building nests under bridges. Our vicious little hummingbirds returned about a month ago and I always wonder if I should wear goggles when I walk past their feeders. I tease my wife about filling the feeders with Mountain Dew just so I could hear the hummers make micro sonic booms, but I promise that they will get no Mountain Dew from me. They are truly tiny miracles and I still can’t understand how they can fly across the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to the Yucatán Peninsula on one hummingbird tank of fuel.
We also have Canadian geese here who do odd things such as roosting in our Ponderosa pine trees. Eagles roosting on the top of a tree, sure. Hawks roosting in trees, sure. But geese just seem out of place. The wild turkeys here roost in trees at night, and one evening as I watched a flock of turkeys roosting on the branch of an old apple tree, the branch broke and they all dropped to the ground like feathery basketballs.
We don’t get t.v. here and choose not to have cable, but we do get the bird channel and it always makes me happy, and especially happy when I hear a meadow lark in the early evening or watch a flock of our little mountain quail come in for a landing on a frozen pond in the winter. Lots of skids and tumbles. They seem so serious about it that it seems unkind to laugh at them, but you need a heart of stone not to laugh.
What a beautiful world in which we live, and thank you for reminding us of that.
This is lovely, Karen. Your posts leave me feeling as if I've taken a break, a pause, meditated, rested, slowed my breath. Thank you. 💜
Please congratulate your storyteller on a beautiful post.
A beautiful story to begin a beautiful day here!
So lovely!
Photos and story out of sync sounds like a reflection of the way life really is, rather than a perfectly aligned narrative we try to present to the world. I'll happily listen to any story you want to tell.
Love your memories of the grandpa’s ❤️😍👍 beautiful pictures…Memorial Day weekend… relaxing in the memories… no stories needed…❤️😍👍
that sweet young heron looks like it's on stilts <3