Just past daybreak, a pileated woodpecker whinnies, a nuthatch tuts, a crow croaks, and a gray squirrel clatters through gray branches.
The view from my front porch every morning, in 140 or fewer characters
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Just past daybreak, a pileated woodpecker...
Also tagged crows, gray squirrel, nuthatch
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A succession of anxious or querulous...
A succession of anxious or querulous calls—nuthatch, crow, Cooper’s hawk, pileated woodpecker—until sunrise reddens the western ridge.
Also tagged Cooper's hawk, crows, nuthatch, sunrise
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I watch the sunbeams’ slow drift...
I watch the sunbeams’ slow drift of mites and motes, entranced, until a shadow cackles: pileated woodpecker resplendent in his tribal crest.
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A pileated woodpecker explores a fallen...
A pileated woodpecker explores a fallen tree in the meadow, the scarlet arrow of his crest appearing and disappearing in the dame’s-rocket.
Also tagged dame's-rocket
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So clear, even the mourning dove sounds...
So clear, even the mourning dove sounds joyful. Muffled thuds of a pileated in a dead tree, knocking—as Rumi would say—from the inside.
Also tagged mourning doves
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Through green-gold leaves backlit by...
Through green-gold leaves backlit by the sun, a scarlet flame and the slow, newspaper flap of black and white: pileated. The Good God Bird.
Clear and cold. A silent pileated woodpecker...
Clear and cold. A silent pileated woodpecker propels itself through the sunlit upper air with great slow strokes of its shining oars.
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A morning for woodpeckers: I hear the...
A morning for woodpeckers: I hear the trilling of a red-bellied, the cackling of a pileated, and a downy’s steady trepanning of a maple.
Also tagged downy woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker
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A flat white sky, against which the...
A flat white sky, against which the cackling silhouettes of pileated woodpeckers flap and dive. My nostrils prickle with the smell of rain.
The close sweep of a woodpecker’...
The close sweep of a woodpecker’s wings sets off a squirrel, who scolds for ten minutes until a male cardinal appears, red as a stop sign.
Also tagged cardinal, gray squirrel
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