A thousand blemishes sparkle on the side of the white porch column perpendicular to the sun. A red-bellied woodpecker trills and trills.
The view from my front porch every morning, in 140 or fewer characters
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A call half-cackle, half-whinny: red...
A call half-cackle, half-whinny: red-bellied woodpecker. I spot him in the sunlit crown of a locust, round red head beside a hole.
Morning full of the cries of woodpeckers...
Morning full of the cries of woodpeckers—part ululation, part rusty hinge. Like the sounds the trees make in a winter wind, speeded up.
Also tagged flicker, pileated woodpecker
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Cloudy and warm. A robin sings in the...
Cloudy and warm. A robin sings in the yard, garrulous as an unmarried uncle. Red-bellied woodpeckers leapfrog each other on a tree trunk.
Also tagged robin
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A goldfinch gone green lands among...
A goldfinch gone green lands among walnut leaves that have gone yellow. Below, a juvenile red-bellied woodpecker, nape turning orange.
Also tagged black walnuts, goldfinches
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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, pileated woodpecker
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A red-bellied woodpecker’s head...
A red-bellied woodpecker’s head going up and down at the top of a tall locust, squeaking like a red marker on the whiteboard sky.
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Dawn fog lifts and pauses, so it’...
Dawn fog lifts and pauses, so it’s clear to a height of ten feet, then white, then the crescent moon. A red-bellied woodpecker’s slow chant.
For an hour now, the red-bellied woodpecker...
For an hour now, the red-bellied woodpecker has been trilling almost non-stop: half yell, half peal. Fleabane blooms beside the sidewalk.
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White sky. The soft calls of a pair...
White sky. The soft calls of a pair of downy woodpeckers on adjacent trees. Four chickadees on a high-speed chase tear through the lilac.
Also tagged chickadee, downy woodpecker, lilac
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