Bird Shot

I love where I live! I love it when I can grab my camera, run out into the yard and catch the neighbors flying by.

Eagle in flight (1 of 2)

My neighbor dropped in unexpectedly

I shot him, not the least bit regrettably

There was nothing to fear

I’d made it perfectly clear

All are welcome, at least theoretically

Eagle in flight (2 of 2)

“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