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Blessed start to my day (long, sorry)
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Blessed start to my day (long, sorry)
- From: "cathy a green" <cagreen@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:31:24 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Morning all,
Okay, I'm sitting at my computer now and ready to share. At 5:15 this
morning I woke up to the song of a titmouse. This has been going on for
close to 2 weeks. He's built a nest in the bluebird house outside our
bedroom window and is madly vocalizing his song of passion, (not other way to
describe it), trying hard to entice a mate. I went outside with my first cup
of coffee around 5:45 at the beginning of daybreak. All of the birds were
singing in the trees, sparrows, chicadees, robins, cardinals, a lone
mockingbird(also still alone), and of course, the titmouse. Maybe his most
impressive songs had helped to get everyone up and come for breakfast. There
was also a few songs I didn't recognize right away. A robin flew down and
landed within a few feet of my feet and cocked her head for a second, snagged
out a worm and took flight. Humm, a breakfast worm for someone maybe? Wow.
This is the kind of morning that makes me look upwards and say Thank YOU.
After the usual mother routine I open the blinds of the bedroom window and
sit to watch the feeder and, yes, I had heard the nuthatch this morning. I
watched as the pair of nuthatches I watched looking for a nesting site a few
weeks ago brought in their Jrs nosily fussing to show them the feeder and how
to use it. Ahhh, the first babies of the year. Wow, awesome.
Drove Donny to work pulled back into the driveway and there, in the birdbath
sat the first fully yellow (or golden), goldfinch for this spring. Wow again,
and again. He was beautiful. Then in flew a female gold finch and then a
couple more males whom weren't fully moted yet, but just about. I haven't
seen the goldfinches in a little over two weeks now. Then the whitethroated
sparrows flew in. And as I sat there in the car, I wished that I could
record the sounds all around, or even be to explain the sounds that was all
around me. The songs, chirps, a squeel I don't recognize, blue jays
hollering, it's like an invasion on every tree around me. A wren couple fly
in, a brown thrasher couple just flew over the pool the chicadees are at the
suet feeder along with the sparrows, goldfinches at the bath,. a male and
female finch together at the seed feeder, Everyone is pairing up, wonderful.
The cardinal couple come in with an extra male following behind, wondering if
they are competing for the same lady. The thistle feeder hanging on the
dogwood is now covered by finches, yep there are back. The dogwood tree
needs mentioning, because it is in full bloom with the prettiest color I have
ever seen, (this is only the 2nd spring at this house, but I don't remember
it being that color last year. It's almost a red but more salmon with the
tips white. Also in bloom are the tulips, daffies, the azaleas are almost all
in color, the pink and red is just now opening..
Okay, do I have a hummer yet. Nahhh. But yesterday I still had 3 junco
under the feeders which, IMHO, is really strange for here. And all of this
morning was one of the best ways God could tell me, be patient. And hey,
it's still early 8*)
Cathy
Cathy Green
cagreen@mindspring. com
N. Augusta, SC