Where the fresh snow has just melted on the concrete walkway, a bright green blush of lichen. The nuthatch’s three nasal notes.
The view from my front porch every morning, in 140 or fewer characters
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Sun through a skim of clouds. A nuthatch...
Sun through a skim of clouds. A nuthatch and a downy woodpecker trade anxious, nasal notes between the faint shadows of the trees.
Also tagged downy woodpecker
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Sunny and cold. A nuthatch lands on...
Sunny and cold. A nuthatch lands on the dead cherry and begins a close inspection of the limbs, dapper as an accountant in his gray suit.
Also tagged cherry tree
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Chickadee and nuthatch alarms are ringing...
Chickadee and nuthatch alarms are ringing over something in the tall weeds. A squirrel pauses beside the porch to scratch its ear.
Also tagged chickadee, gray squirrel
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A low cloud ceiling imposes gloom and...
A low cloud ceiling imposes gloom and silence, save for the closest chirps. A nuthatch, normally querulous, sounds downright neurotic.
Sun glimmers through thin clouds, the...
Sun glimmers through thin clouds, the ground is hazy with frost, and me trying to blink the sleep from my eyes. A nuthatch’s anxious call.
Also tagged frost
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Flakes in the air and the barest fur...
Flakes in the air and the barest fur on the ground, like a leaf’s glaucous bloom. A low-key chattering match of nuthatches 100 yards apart.
Also tagged snow, snowflakes
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A quiet Sunday morning, frost like...
A quiet Sunday morning, frost like a pall, and a pair of nuthatches in querulous dialogue about—who knows?—the taste of frozen bugs.
Just past daybreak, a pileated woodpecker...
Just past daybreak, a pileated woodpecker whinnies, a nuthatch tuts, a crow croaks, and a gray squirrel clatters through gray branches.
Also tagged crows, gray squirrel, pileated woodpecker
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Thick fog at daybreak, as if the bright...
Thick fog at daybreak, as if the bright moon of 2am had spread a kind of mildew over the mountain. Train whistle. A nuthatch’s nasal call.
Also tagged fog, moon, train
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