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California Quail Goes Gardening
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California Quail in the Rainforest
The ancient salmon forests of the Pacific Coast were felled long ago. Well, most of them.
Hoh
Some of the lost ones went to houses in Vancouver and Seattle. People still live in their bones. Others, though, still stand.
Ozette
Others, with long grains of clear cedar, which might have been used for fine cabinets and ceremonial screens, were turned into fenceposts, to herd humans and cattle and to hold grapes up to the sun to create jug wines, but that’s all in the past now. Now, the quail come.
Hooo- HooOOOOoooo! Don’t our forests have new life now!
Last Winter’s Bird Seed
All the snow and the quail and the chickadees are gone now.
They’ll be back. We’re ready!
More Magpie Fun: Experimental Flight
Whee!
It’s fun to be a magpie, and as for wing-flapping? Not necessary!
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OK, so I had my camera on the wrong setting today, but you can get the idea. Right? I hope so!
Gold Finch Gardeners and Foodies
A male and three female American goldfinches stopped by the other day. The females had a go at the red orach, this lovely salad amaranth.
But who am I to complain? They seeded them by eating off the two metre-tall stalks in the fall as they passed south!
Tree Swallows in the Grass
Home again!
It’s the tree swallows, hungry and flying high. Just back yesterday after a long journey.
They nest in the trees that thread through the shadows, but live in the air above the grass.
That is a very fine thing.
What Dead Trees Are For
Blending in!
Raven Doesn’t Share
Tease. And showing off with those wings. Sheesh. Hurts, you know.
Eagles in Aerial Combat
It’s tournament day in the Okanagan.
Thank You, Magpie!
For years I’ve tried to get a good magpie photo, but those magpies are smart and can spot a camera from 300 metres. But I met a kind magpie on Saturday. Here she (?) is.
Beautiful day! Beautiful bird.
