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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
Make an A-Z list on a topic of your choosing. Stretch your creativity! After you finish your list, write a short narrative describing why you chose the list you did and how it relates to you.   I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly. The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Bird Quotes - BrainyQuote https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/bird A = AMERICAN BITTERN B = BLUEBIRD C = CORMORANT (DOUBLE-CRESTED) D = DOVE E = EAGLE F = FLYCATCHERS G = GROUSE H = HUMMINGBIRD I = IBIS J = BLUEJAY K = KESTREL L = LOON M = MALLARDS N = NUTHATCH O = OWLS P = PIGEON Q = QUAIL R = ROBIN S = SWALLOWS T = TURKEY U = ULTRAMARINE KINGFISHER V = VIRGINIA RAIL W= WHIPPOORWILLS X = XANTUS HUMMINGBIRD Y = YELLOW BELLIED SAPSUCKERS Z = ZEBRA FINCH I’m a bird watcher. I was an intern with the PURPLE MARTIN ASSOCIATION in 2004. And, I took a through the mail course with Cornell University about Bird Biology. I have feeders in the front of the house and back of the house. Most of the birds on the list are species that visit my feeders. A few are local to the Great Lakes. One or two are just there because their names meet the alphabet requirement. Birds are interesting. Some communicate by sitting on the window if the feeders run low in the winter. Others tell the flocks when I am filling feeders with calls and screeches. Chickadees will sit on your fingers when you fill feeders. If birds get stuck on the back porch they fly out the open door when I point at the opening. Bye gotta fly now! |
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