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Tuesday May 21, 2013

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The chickadees take turns carrying insects into their hole, bold, ignoring my presence a few feet away. From the hidden chicks, nary a peep.

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May·21

Monday May 13, 2013

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A chickadee lands on the cherry snag and chitters till his mate emerges from the hole. He gives her a bit of food and they fly off together.

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May·13

Wednesday May 08, 2013

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A catbird mews from within the crabapple’s scandalous maroon. It starts to rain. A chickadee carries a worm into its hole in the stump.

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May·08

Wednesday April 24, 2013

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A chickadee carries a piece of gray down into their hole in the tree; its mate follows it in. A minute later it carries the down back out.

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Apr·24

Saturday April 13, 2013

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Only the tail-tip of the chickadee now protrudes from the dead cherry tree, and I can barely hear it hammering at the rotten heartwood.

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Apr·13

Wednesday April 10, 2013

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While one chickadee digs out their den, pecking at the rotten cherry wood, its mate waits atop the stump, grooming its pale breast feathers.

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Apr·10

Monday April 08, 2013

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Back from migration, a Louisiana waterthrush sings above the trickle of a stream. Chickadees excavate a den hole in the dead cherry stump.

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Apr·08

Wednesday January 02, 2013

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A titmouse inspects the undersides of several limb-stumps on the dead cherry snag, its cap wobbling. Shadows fade in and out. It’s cold.

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Jan·02

Tuesday November 20, 2012

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The lace-work of leafless treetops against the clouds. No wonder the dead cherry with its cluster of six limb-stumps reminds me of despair.

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Nov·20

Sunday November 04, 2012

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A titmouse hops from one limb-stump to another on the newly truncated cherry snag. Five minutes later, a brown creeper scoots up the bole.

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Nov·04

Monday September 10, 2012

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A downy woodpecker lands in the dead cherry tree. She trills and the rotten limbs tremble, taps and they make hardly a sound.

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Sep·10

Friday August 17, 2012

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A hummingbird sits on the tip of one of the dead cherry’s few remaining twigs, like a fat green leaf with the stem pointing the wrong way.

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Aug·17

Monday June 18, 2012

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Two chickadees take turns excavating a hole in the last remaining limb of the dead cherry, their small bills tearing at the rotten wood.

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Jun·18

Saturday June 02, 2012

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Another of the dead cherry’s limbs broke off in the night, leaving just one more forked limb and a cluster of stumps, scabrous with fungi.

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Jun·02

Wednesday April 11, 2012

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The Carolina wren goes from querulous chirps to full-throated denunciations from the top of the dead cherry tree. But the snow continues.

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Apr·11

Tuesday March 06, 2012

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Home after a week away, what’s changed? The song sparrows are back, ebullient as ever, and the dead cherry has shed another shaggy limb.

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Mar·06

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