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And there were a couple of blue jays in the bush as well--strangely furtive and behaving in unusual ways. I mistook them both for other things--a thrush seen in the distance traversing the ground, and a flying squirrel scuttling across and swooping through the branches above me. Jays both times. The flying squirrel illusion was particularly unsettling. After I saw the jay I kept on looking for the squirrel I was sure must be occupying the same space--though they say that's a logical impossibility.
So not without its perceptual interest, but that's not many birds. Not a cardinal, a robin, a goldfinch, a junco, a crow, a tree sparrow, or a snowy owl to be seen.
So last night I dreamed of a great horned owl, and even better, four or five birds of a species I didn't recognize. Maybe the size of an evening grosbeak, sturdy birds, with delicate markings, rich browns predominantly. A bird I've seen a picture of somewhere perhaps. But what it put me in mind of was the Asian koel I read about on the Bird Ecology Study Group blog out of Singapore recently. Not that it looked like that exactly--rather it may have been a dream bird inspired by that bird.
This morning it was raining. But then the rain turned to snow!
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The sun did come out, and the temperature hovered around the freezing mark, maintaining most of the 4 or 5 cm of new snow. The birds left again.
3 comments:
I wish I dreamed of birds Pamela, with me it's usually work. We'd like some of your coolness over here, at the moment it's 42+ in the carport, that's 108 Fahrenheit, with a nasty nor-wester blowing. Bad fire weather.
42! Here we are laid out flat if the temperature goes above 30. I hope the fires don't come.
I agree with Pamela. If it gets above 80°F here, we're complaining. During summer 65°F is nice. Right now it's 11°F with snow warnings.
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