Birds Fly Bias

I was able to get nine exposures of this Northern Harrier as it flew by at the Sacramento Wildlife Refuge, but nine made for a very wide photo.

Northern Harrier Hawk

Northern Harrier Hawk

Lost Opportunities

“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
?  Sean O’Casey 1880-1964

Voussoir Cache Voussoir Caché

In the audience

I am as cool as Sherlock Holmes

On stage, I sweat

The lights are blinding

Where are my lines?!!

……Your window was open

I looked in

drawn, moth-like, to all the possibilities

of what it is you are about

Yes, though your window was open

wontedly

I discovered only myself

looking out

An entire building abandoned

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I See Your Point

When debating the Heron or the stately Egret,

never, never respond with, “and your point being?”

That is a comeback you would likely regret.

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

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Great Egret

 

 

Fowl Identification

By the book,

it was a White-fronted Goose.

The reasoning behind its name?

Well, that is a little abstruse.

But it made perfect sense

when by the sheerest of luck

a day or so later,

I profiled a Ring-necked Duck.

WTF?!

White-fronted Goose

White-fronted Goose

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White-fronted Geese

Ring-necked Duck

Ring-necked Duck

Be Safe! Solve This Riddle!

Your mission, friends, should you decide to accept it, is to figure out what the subject of this photograph is and how it came to be. I did add some art filters and distortion to make it less obvious. Here is the riddle that provides the answer:

For me it was just a typical morn

as the babe from the fiery furnace was born.

The crib was hot and ready for rest,

but where in the world could stand such a test?

Lacking for space, it lay down on a burner

and waited in ambush for me, the wrong turner.

The water was cold, though it wanted to boil,

when the beast with a bang sprang from its coil.

Lucky for me, I was just out of its reach,

but for your future well-being, I thee beseech,

if it is fire you need, and proceed with dispatch,

be more than certain you light the right match.

Safety Riddle

 

Today’s Weather—Mostly Bunny With Scattered Flowers

Chaplain, priest, pastor, abbot

Can they uplift your soul as can a rabbit?

It was not Easter, but October twenty

She liked my oregano, but I have plenty

Bunny-Bunny--2This one is an  occasional visitor to my yard, but this was the first opportunity to get some decent photos.

“Shadow is the obstruction of light” Leonardo da Vinci

Great Egret Noir         Over a brambled path

 We step and pose

         Our great regrets

                Our shadow knows.

A shadow can be a ponderous friend

          When on our back until the end

Choosing what my thoughts beget

                Behind me strides a Great Egret

Sooner or Later, Gravity Wins

Monday morning, I had the following experience at the SeaTac disc golf course. Of course, I had to put it to rhyme:

In the dappled shade of a towering pine

    the sun I’d craved, I now declined

High above, two little birds

     embroiled in more than a war of words

A whirling, twirling, mid-air fight

WHOSE EXPECTATIONS WERE IN THE RIGHT?

If I’d been a cat, I’d have had my sup

     wrestling birds cannot stay up

I craned my neck

What kind of birds are those?

    They then crash-landed on my nose

That’s how I got my close-up view

    of not one little Nuthatch…but two

Nuthatch x 2