Tag: birding
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New Year’s Eve Eve
A bright, windy day. The breeze is intense, driving the Windchill ever lower. While the light is enticing the cold is not. Yesterday was a day of darkness and rain. Night came early as did dawn this morning. I was reminded that for a time after the solstice dawn continues to come later, even as…
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Deer In the Field
A seasonably warm day, pleasant enough that Nori spent twenty minutes on the porch. Here and there a few leaves cling to trees. From my window I can see determined reds among the scant dangling browns and tans. There are fewer berries on what’s left of the Poke Berry, just enough to entice the birds…
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Past Peak
A lovely late October day. The temperature this morning stood near freezing but here, not far from the shore, there was still no frost. Still, Nori the cat wisely thought better of spending much time before the briefly open door or even on the sun porch, which, as it is on the north side of…
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Transitions
Today is cool with intermittent puffy fair-weather clouds and a light northerly breeze. The ragweed by our deck is probably six feet tall yet is dwarfed by the Pokeberry which is well over eight foot in height. The Poke weed’s berries are ripening a deep purple; they ripen from the top down and as they…
