Click on photos to enlarge and read captions. I need some help in identifying two of these birds.
Morning Birdsong
Each consecutive melody, sung with a full-throated enthusiasm and answered in kind achieves a second purpose that I’m sure is one unintended by nature. Encapsulated in deep sleep as I am, only they are effectual in actually arousing me, for they form a chorus of alarm clocks that cannot be turned off.
I smooth the matted mane of Matteo, my love who sleeps through it all, and stumble to the kitchen to put on the coffee. As I drink my first cup, the male woodpecker joins his mate in the tallest palm tree outside the kitchen window. A second later, Matteo joins me as well and all is right in the world. He croons a soft aria into my ear and I answer in perfect harmony.
Word prompts for today are consecutive, encapsulate, effectual, matteo and melody
effectual is producing the intended result; entirely adequate.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
They’re so pretty! I love the ones with the yellow.
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They are orioles. I have since put captions identifying all the birds. I was in a hurry this morning to drive my housekeeper home and couldn’t finish up.
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Me, too. Haven’t seen any in a long time. Perhaps they are just here in the winter.
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Fine pics and good use of prompt in prose
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Beautiful story and photos.
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All from my yard. Blessed denizens!
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