August 25, 2005

herd


Current mood: indescribable

twenty juvenile turkeys trotting across the sunny piney meadow above the river

August 19, 2005

August 18, 2005

boreal?

Two nites in a row have heard a trilling owl around the house that doesn't match the sound of a screech or sawhet owl-- sort of a bip-bip-bip sound kind of like dripping water so it might be a boreal... Heard coyotes early this a.m. then saw a bright meteorite streak overhead.

August 12, 2005

hummers

At least 2 female ruby-throated hummingbirds bickering over the feeder I just re-installed, squeaking those tiny nasal squeaks in alarm & annoyance. In between they sit on white pine branches & the washline, preening & cleaning their long needle-like bills.