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Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”–George Eliot
For Wednesday Quotes #163–The inspiring world of animals.
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Trying to meet this challenge made me realize how little brown there is in my world–let alone walnut brown! I had to search through thousands of photos to find these photos that could be classified in the category of “walnut brown.”
Many birds, but all seen on Nov 28 on a trip out to Scorpion Island in Lake Chapala.
For the Birds of the Week prompt
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For Cee’s Which Way: Animals prompt.
Remember my post about the hungry nest of just-hatched swallows in my neighbors’ garage? HERE is a link to it if you didn’t see it. Well, above are four current photos of the hatchlings, who have now flown the nest. Photos taken on their terrace by my neighbor David Bershad.
Here are the same birdies before in a photo taken by me in their garage:
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CAVITY
About 85 species in North America make nests using cavities, birdhouses, gaps in structures or holes found in tree hollows, telephone poles, abandoned buildings and more.
Of the birds that use nest cavities, most woodpeckers (Picidae) including the northern flicker [Colaptes auratus] and red-naped sapsucker [Sphyrapicus nuchalis] tend to be the species that do the hard work of excavating many of the tree cavities. Fewer birds excavate their own holes in trees. But of those that do, the woodpeckers are by far the best known. The cavity using opportunists include bluebirds (Sialia), chickadees (Paridae), house sparrows, house wrens [Troglodytes aedon], nuthatches (Sitta), the bridled titmouse [Baeolophus wollweberi], violet-green swallows [Tachycineta thalassina], many parrots, and even some small owls such as the northern saw-whet owl [Aegolius acadicus]. Red-cockaded woodpeckers nest in cavities that can take years to construct in a living tree. They live in groups and will have as…
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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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Oops.. I got mixed up and thought “Paint it Black” was a photo prompt. When I tried to link it, I found it was a short short writing prompt. I couldn’t find a comments section to link it to anyway, and since it is clear I was not meant to complete the link, here is my response to “Paint it Black” in pictures.
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Morning Matins
Birds of diverse attitudes
join voice to sing beatitudes.
The stodgiest cannot refrain
from joining every day again—
unrepentant in their choices,
upon awakening, to join voices.
This reunion stirs the world.
Squirrels in their burrows tightly curled,
unwind to greet the light of day
as inch by inch it lifts its ray.
The donkey lifts its voice to bray
and chickens, as they strain to lay,
raise their clucks to join the chorus,
the world’s alarm clock sounding for us.
The whole world wakening, bit by bit,
prompting us all to wake with it.
Prompts today are: stodgy, beatitude, inch and reunion. And yes, I know that’s a rooster, not a chicken, but although they didn’t make the poem, roosters are the best alarm of all.
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