A wool-gray sky. This is not the blue morning we were promised! But tell it to the bluebirds warbling above the garage.
The view from my front porch every morning, in 140 or fewer characters
Tag Archives: bluebird
Sunrise: a bluebird warbles. From a...
Sunrise: a bluebird warbles. From a thousand feet up, the cry of a killdeer, that lost shorebird, circling the long brown waves of hills.
Also tagged killdeer
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Sunrise. A bluebird sings from…
Sunrise. A bluebird sings from the electric line, and suddenly it feels 25 degrees warmer. A ragged V of geese, too low to be migrants.
Also tagged Canada geese, sunrise
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A bluebird warbles in the darkness....
A bluebird warbles in the darkness. Eyelids heavy with hours of missing sleep, I squint into the spreading stain of light.
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Bluebird, white-throated sparrow, a...
Bluebird, white-throated sparrow, a starling’s liquid note, and high overhead, a kildeer: the sky must be blue above the fog.
I keep hearing fragments of song—...
I keep hearing fragments of song—winter wren, bluebird, song sparrow—and the usual tight flock of siskins in a walnut tree going zzzzzzip.
Also tagged pine siskin, song sparrow, winter wren
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A cloudless sunrise. Snow lingers on...
A cloudless sunrise. Snow lingers on the west-facing hillside, hard and ugly as guilt. For the first time in months, a bluebird’s song.
Also tagged sunrise
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Cold and overcast. Four silent bluebirds...
Cold and overcast. Four silent bluebirds drop into the spicebush in my herb garden and begin gobbling the blood-red drupes, stones and all.
