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I loved watching these birds bathing in this pool. Unfortunately, the photos of their actually splashing around didn’t come out as well as the ones of them perched on the rocks before or afterwards.
For the Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge
These fellows seem very at ease wandering through the town of Sheridan, Wyoming, this summer during the hottest week of the year. Here they stroll through the shade of my friend Duffy’s yard. Definitely not camera-shy. They were about as Cold Turkey as they could be during this snap when daily temperatures reached 110 degrees!
For the Bird of the Week prompt
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From Lake Chapala to La Manzanilla to Alabama to Wyoming to the rainforests of Peru, I never met a bird I didn’t have to photograph. Here are a few of the long-legged ones, as directed by the prompt! Yes, I got carried away a bit.
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Caged Bird
My cage is comfortable, but
it is a homey sort of rut.
Is it not reasonable for
a bird to want a whole lot more?
Confined to this continual squeeze,
I yearn for freedom of the trees—
the air, the feel of wind on wings.
One should not confine wild things.
Prompts today are reasonable, homey, confine, trees.
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Lift
You burn the air with tail and wing,
not thinking about anything.
Each lift of pinion simple, sure,
anonymous, unplanned and pure.
No slipshod planning, everything
insures facility of wing.
Each barb, each shaft composed with care
made less of matter than of air.
We only guess. We do not know,
what hand has engineered it so,
 merely wonder at its might
as we watch your easy flight,
lifting up with ease most rare
by miracle of wing on air.
For Granny’s prompt
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